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I did try to use Martyn's disCharge to decompile Cport -- why not -- but it barfed when running the full decompiler, with an error along the lines of A9A6 or similar. No codes file was created. I was thinking it would be good to ressurect the source for Cport -- in a manner similar to the hard work...

Looking at the numbers supplied. You could try loading the game into into Qemulator, but don't do the CALL then SBYTES flp1_something,184320,66704 (that's if I did the sums right :? ) This should save everything as one big block, ready to go. That you could LBYTES at 184320 in the Goldcard then CALL...

Out of curiosity. Do the suspect coils look like burnt, or anything?

Bit of a long shot, (well a lot more than a bit) Try re-soldering the connections on the back of the printhead, in case there is some kind of dry joints after all the years.

Looks like the coils have burnt out. Probably driver transistors blown up. You will likely find a row of 9 transistors, or there may be a couple of '4 pack' transistors, and an odd one. The '4 pack' option sounds like a good bet, as there are 4 blown coils. A bit academic unless you can get a replac...

If you can get at the other end of the ribbon cable. You could measure the resistance of the coils in the printhead to see if they are OK. I would expect the thick middle one to be the common. Also I don't know how well the flexible cable has faired over the years, look for any cracks. Think QL keyb...

XorA wrote:I know it doesn’t help, but try a leaking laser toner cartridge. Bugger me that stuff gets everywhere and doesn’t clean off.

And be careful about using a vacuum cleaner with it. The toner can get through the filters and gum up the motor. We used to have special vacuum cleaners at work for toner.

2. Why do printers report a cartridge as empty when there's so much ink left in them, seems extremely wasteful. The lake on my desk was several inches wide, must have been a good 5 to 10ml at least going to waste. Often what the printer does, is that it knows how much ink is used in every 'squirt',...

That it is, but I couldn't find what I was looking for in this instance: is there any (easy) way of making QPC2 recognise .MDV files without trying to trick it into thinking it's something else? QPC can do a lot of things, but MDV images are a pure retro thing and that is not the usage scenario QPC...

Here is Version 0.25 of the driver. I have been trying to fix the random bad packet problems, And yesterday I threw my test programs at it, and saw no problems. So I thought I would post it. I noticed that the ETH_PING command hangs the machine (it worked with 0.22). Also ETH_INIT breaks the ethern...