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Have created an MDV with TK2 & Ramdisk on it, which works fine on the emulator. But won't be able to try it on real iron until my vDriveQL arrives (which I assume won't be this side of Christmas from NZ) Thanks for all the advise, the Q-emuLator gives me something to play with, QL wise, for the ...

That all looks great, thanks. I guess I won't be needing to worry about serial connections any more!

Next up for me is to make a list of software I want to put on MDV's

Many thanks
Tony

Thanks Chr$/Sparrowhawk I hadn't realised there was an emulator for Mac with those options The website seems to only have Intel Mac support currently, but I'll install it on my old Intel Macbook and give it a try EDIT: Of course I can run it on my M1. My brain is getting more addled than I realised ...

You could try using Kermit at both ends. I believe a QL version exists. Not sure what the baud/bits etc would be though. As an aside, on the Mac I use a paid-for app, "Serial" (https://www.decisivetactics.com/products/serial/) which whilst not cheap, avoids having to install any third par...

I found an app (not from the App Store) called CoolTerm That let me paste and it seemed to be doing something as the file I sent was way too large and it filled up the Microdrive So I tried sending a much smaller basic program and it wrote to MD (and I sent a Ctl-z to end the transfer) But when I lo...

Hi all, I have a working serial cable (I wrote a quick and dirty basic program on the QL to read the serial port and display any incoming data on the QL screen and then used a simple App Store app on the Mac to type characters that all appeared correctly on the QL's screen to prove it worked) But th...

Have ordered a QuintupLer from Chr$, my new QL adventure begins!

Many thanks Chris

Taking onboard the advise I've asked to be put on the lists/queues for a QuintupLer & QIMSI, thanks

As for technical infos on QIMSI, you can get an overview here: https://qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=52683#p52683 Likely you'd have to wait for the next production batch though. The availability of QL RAM expansions is precarious. The best is to follow Tobias' advice. If that fails, I also don't kn...

User Chr$ tends to build RAM expansion board s every now and then, if I remember right - better ask him directly. These would keep the CPU at the 68008, just expand the RAM to the original anticipated maximum. If I were you, I would really re-think the floppy approach: Floppies are, in my opinion, ...