The Sinclair QL Forum

QLTerm does not know anything about Hayes commands and responses. It just forwards them to the display and from the keyboard. So if you set the baud rate in QLTerm to 9600, it will stay at 9600 regardless of what the modem reports. Of course, your modem should not change the baud rate once connected...

If you don't have a Moxa but do have a PC you can use the telnet.bas program from my QLTerm repository (https://github.com/janbredenbeek/QLTerm) on any TCP/IP-enabled emulator such as QPC, Qemulator, sQLux or SMSQmulator. On SMSQ/E you'll even have 8 colours available. I'm not sure why XMODEM transf...

It's different depending on which system you're running. QDOS: No easy way, you could try stuffing an LRUN command into channel 0's keyboard queue (this of course only works when SB is idle since it cannot multitask). Minerva: Start an instance of MultiBASIC. The details are in the Minerva manual. S...

I had hoped to also show QPC1 running on top of DOSBox_Wii. However QPC exits at initialisation with the error /INT15 fehlt oder ist <1 MB! which is a shame. A quick web search shows that early DOSBox versions had issues with INT15. I remember that QPC1 is a bit picky about the memory configuration...

After the upgrade from v1.00 to v1.05 I got random crashes when loading Minerva from the FAT partition, which led to the discovery of the bug in the FAT driver. It seems to be connected to the 40MHz SDHC clock option (which I had disabled in the SMSQ/E configuration). SMSQ/E versions before 3.37 ap...

I have loaded Q68 v1.02 FPGA code onto a Batch 4 Q68, and copied a Q68_ROM.SYS, with integrated Toolkit 2, to a freshly formatted SD Card with a FAT32 partition. The Q68 boots up to Minerva and links Toolkit 2, faster than my monitor startup. The system seems to work in 512x256, 1024x768, also load...

Derek_Stewart wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:42 am Have you reported this to Wolfgang to get the problem fixed?

It was too late last night, but I have just mailed Wolfgang.

In addition, there is little documentation available about the internals of the built-in drivers, other than the (scarcely commented) source code. Given this fact, you do an amazing job! :D Thanks! Now a bit of bad news: I just discovered that SMSQ/E's Q68 FAT driver contains a bug that corrupts fi...

Hi Jbizzel, It's best to install the RAM disk driver and copy to ram1_ first, then to storage media. The QL cannot handle serial and storage I/O at the same time, and serial buffering is limited to just 81 bytes. The con_ driver is also quite slow. For reliable transfers you can use SERnet or QTPI t...

I have 2 Q68 with same build and Q68 ROM Loader v1.05, both seem to load Minerva from Q68_ROM.SYS or from SMSQ/E. A bit strange. I have updated the FPGA to v1.05 and running Minerva with no problems. One question what does Minerva do different to SMSQ/E? SMSQ/E has all drivers built-in, whereas Min...