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Derek_Stewart wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:58 pm <>
Rotating the Scroll Wheel does nothing, unlike QPAC2 or SMSQMulator with same version of SMSQ/E. I will ask Wolfgang to look at this.

When the mouse is properly initialised (which is most of the time) scrolling with the scroll wheel works fine here. Its not an SMSQ/E v3.39 thing..

HI Per, What version of Q68 ROM Loader is installed, this can be found by removing the SD Card from SD Card Slot 1, which will stop at the loader screen, saying it can not find a valid SDHC Card. Your Q68 was manufactured in Batch 2, which was not part of the problem with Minerva4Q68 on Batch 4 V1....

Thanks, Peter. On every other reset the system halts at PC.CLOCK initialisation. I cant say Ive noticed this behaviour before. However, clearly, it cant have anything to do with SMSQ/E as I suspected at first. Anyway, its not really a problem; occasionally I'll just have to reboot.

Hi Per! Did you notice whether or not the Q68 bootloader detected a 'normal' or 'extended' PS/2 mouse at start-up? (It flashes-by a bit quick...) I find that my extended PS/2 mouse isn't always detected as such intermittently. Probably a timing issue, but not something I usually bother about (I hat...

Hi Derek, Strange that: I just upgraded my Q68 with the latest SMSQ/E, and the scroll wheel did not scroll nor the scroll button butt. I though this might be a new "feature". However, on starting up this morning everything worked fine! No idea what happened (or whether it may happen again)...

<> By the way, another highly desired feature in this version of SMSQE for Q68 is the functionality of the "Home" and "End" keys, now the use of those keys is more predictable (great!). The scroll wheel on my mouse doent produce any output. Does it work for anyone/everyone else?

I re-partitioned my SD card to use some smaller "GEM" partitions with 16MB and that now seems to work, even on an external ACSI harddisk 16 MB was a lot back in those days ;) Sorry, but I know my Atari and SMSQ partitions were larger than 16Mb. Back in the day SMSQ/E supported at least GE...

tofro, I partitioned my Atari and Qx0 hard disks with fdisk (I think). Perhaps thats the difference.

Fond memories indeed
Its so long ago now I cant remember any details, but here are a couple of lines from my original boot file for my Atari system: Perhaps that gives a clue..?

Pretty impressive, at least on QPC2. Well done!