vanpeebles wrote:Are we getting chips too?

Only micro ones.

I cancelled the funding, due having to over 10 months after paying for the computer. Not a good way to do business. Ah, well, that's the point, you're not "buying" the computer, you are investing in a proposal for a project with the contracted reward for the investment at the end of its t...

When I get mine I'll try to do a review of it running the QL core, if it's of interest to anyone. It's not due til August 2021, so don't hold your breaths though :) (and KS1 had loads of delays, so who knows when KS2 will actually deliver) Most of those delays were design problems with the keyboard...

At the end of the ARTice MANUAL_doc it says: Converting to floppy disc use. The simplest method ia to use the toolkit command FLP_USE MDV to emulate microdrives or to use a convert utility which converts every occurrence of MDV to FLP etc. A conversion to flp or fdk on 3.5 in disc will be available ...

It probably just overclocked the CPU a bit.

Indeed, you can never rely upon the mains frequency, which is at best approximate, so no-one does.

Ah, I didn't realise that above 128K it was uncontended, I thought that it was all compromised by video access.

I made a bit of a personal discovery last night whilst just writing a test program when mucking about with the B&W telly. The same QL with a Trump Card is faster. I wrote a little program: 10 CLS 20 SDATE 2020,7,22,0,0,0 30 PRINT DATE$ 40 FOR x=0 TO 10000 50 AT 1,0 60 PRINT x 70 NEXT x 80 PRINT ...

OK, not quite today but a few days ago... I got a replacement B&W TV/Radio for the one my Dad got rid of during one of his "clear outs" in the mid-1990s, The same model as we used to have. I've spent the last couple of days cleaning it inside and out, removing 30 year old smoker's tar...

OK, not quite today but a few days ago... I got a replacement B&W TV/Radio for the one my Dad got rid of during one of his "clear outs" in the mid-1990s, The same model as we used to have. I've spent the last couple of days cleaning it inside and out, removing 30 year old smoker's tar...