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It also needs two wires and a small board over zx8301 socket but it is so much easier to install and no need for 3d printed plate for the ports. One or two wires are not too bad. For QIMSI I also needed one for the QL speaker. I had the luck that one ROM port pin has no dedicated funktion, so the c...

Hi folks, it's been a long while since we discussed this, but it was not forgotten... [*]I could completely live without microdrives, with the limited supply of cartridges, there's not much point in them. SD is a perfect replacement [*]No need to have much on-board ROM other than a small loader - Lo...

Okay thanks for the clarification!

I keep on moaning at Wolfgang that the Q68 Config defaults are not as agreed. His settings are terrible, especially as the WIN8 configuration mechanism won't even work on some cards with the "fast" setting. Also the french keyboard is super weird to get reconfiguration started. And the lo...

martyn_hill wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:00 pm Just to say that, after careful consideration, I have now gone ahead and booked my flight for the Dormagen QL event in May

Superb! When do you need to travel back? I might even stay on Sunday if some others also can stay.

Dave wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:07 pm Exact UK layout no changes.

Not even $ instead of £?

martyn_hill wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:46 pm To be fair, the UK keyboard was already pretty much based on the US layout - something I was surprised to discover when developing the extra language maps for the Qbase

Did you finish any of them?

Ive now switched off fast access. That might have had something to do with it? Yes! That overclocks the SD card and is an experimental feature that comes with a huge warning! It should never have become default on the SMSQ/E website, I keep warning people all the time. If you have that switched on,...

I dont see why Id want to do that considering the routine I just posted (above) which does exactly that. It is safe and just does the job. For users who may not know where to poke, it requires no specialist knowledge. I wasn't aware that you want a smooth solution for others, not just rename one or...

Derek_Stewart wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:15 pm I was going to use the Conec 16-001810E, which looks really good, but in low numbers is expensive.

Compared to previous converters, it is still very cost effective.

A little off topic, but what was the US QL keyboard layout? Was it close to UK?