The Sinclair QL Forum

Just LRUN it.

It will lead you through the process, if I remember right.

Tobias

hi tobias
sorry to sound thick but do i load up the microdrive with qterm first then lrun the config file or vice versa then what do i enter as when i run the program it asks me for source and destination.
cheers mark

Hi,

Source = Original Programme
Destination = Configured copy of Qterm

You should look at QEM and QLTerm.

QLTerm is by Jan Bredenbeek, who has just rejoined the QL Forum.

Hi Mark

Having spent MANY hours playing with the Serial ports since I got my hands on a BBQL, my best advice is purchase and fit the HERMES IC - the co-processor replacement, responsible for serial input (plus some other activities) in the QL.

I would also install QPC on your PC so that you can unzip stuff within a QL environment.

I can transfer files with NO errors (as far as I can tell) between PC and BBQL at 19200 using simple COPY or SBYTES/LBYTES between the emulated QL and the real one - always using ser1h (for binaries) or ser1hz (for Basic programs and other normal text).

I regularly 'boot-strap' my BBQL this way as my ageing MDV cartridges barely last a few days, even after replacing the pads (see another thread for that topic...)

I know it might seem over-kill to invest in the QL before you've gotten very far, but prior to HERMES, I couldn't reliably move anything at any speed - and have saved myself many more hours having done so. I even started developing my own X/YModem package, but stalled that effort once I got reliable serial connection using HERMES.

Then go for the Minerva ROM replacement (tricky to find the small daughter-boards these days, but the ROM image itself is available on Dilwyn's site). The combination of HERMES and Minerva is, I would say, a bare minimum.

Oh, and then burn TK2 to the last 16k of an 64K EPROM used for Minerva and, with a simple hack of the daughter-board (also documented somewhere on Dilwyn's site), you have a respectable and reliable platform to play with.

(Of course, you'll need an EPROM programmer - I bought and use effective the 'MiniPro' - just don't be put off by the Chinese instructions/Help!)

In short - don't bother messing about with the serial connections using the original co-processor - life is too short and you want to free up more time to enjoy the QL!

This issue of QL USER



is a transfer program between a ZX Spectrum and a Sinclair QL using the Serial ports using the fastest protocol that would work at the time. You could use this as a starting point.

Unfortunately my copy and the listing (I wrote the article, built the connecting lead, bought the t-shirt, watched the video ) are far from accessible at the moment or I would have posted them here. If anyone does have access to this, please feel free.

Here's the Spectrum-QL article, OCRed from QL User. Layout not the same, but hopefully makes sense.

Excellent - thanks Lee and Dilwyn

If I have the energy later today I will post a step-by-step key-by-key replay of how to successfully transfer files with the QTerm/TeraTerm combination.

We know your serial cable works since you are saying you were able to transfer QTerm using my Xmodem hack. And having done quite a few transfers with QTerm/TeraTerm combo I know that combination works on a standard (640k) QL, albeit with low transfer speeds (2400, maybe sometimes 4800 baud) if you don't have Hermes.

Cheers,
Petri

when i run config_bas file i type mdv1_ which has the qterm boot cartridge and mdv2_ which has a blank cart which i take will create a version of qterm with the config i wish to use but it keeps coming up with at line 1360 error in expression any help please.

Is it that the config program is written for floppy drives only as when I start it up it comes up flp1_qterm_cde and flp2 for the destination but when I change both to mdv the microdrive starts to run then I get the error.
Any help please