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I guess this is the wrong forum to say no-one cares about boot sector anymore, UEFI doesn't use it

(waits to be pelted by the greybeards)

Another possibilty to create and access QLWA containers under Linux and Windows is qxltool: http://www.zen35309.zen.co.uk/qdos/#qxltool By the way, does someone have a comprehensive mirror of this important QL website? Just remember on linux to compile it for 32bit, under 64bit it looks like it wor...

dilwyn wrote:Many thanks to both of you for this, I've updated my own settings now too.

Now all I need to work out is why Firefox takes 3 minutes to log me into this Forum sometimes (Chrome and IE both OK, although Firefox is what I use most now).

Stop swearing at it in Welsh

and I guess if SMSQmulator is running faster than the 2nd fastest QL type machine ever made, is there a point investing a lot of time into uQlx running SMSQ/e?

Dave wrote: Any possibility of uQLx growing to support SMSQ/E?

Its more the other way round who will write the SMSQ/E drivers for uQlx?

Dave wrote:
Haven't ever been able to get uQLx to work at all.

That should work, Swensons distro was developed on Pi0

....don't you just need a standard switch mode 5V regulated supply with figure 8 mains input (cant remember the official connector name). That will deal with all input voltages (except maybe North Korea) local user just supplies standard figure 8 lead for their locale.... Internal power supplies is...

So I would required to stock the following power supplies: UK: 240V 5V EU: 240V 5V USA: 110V 5V Rest of World: No idea of the mains electricity in every country. You don't you just need a standard switch mode 5V regulated supply with figure 8 mains input (cant remember the official connector name)....

I had an asus transformer tablet that had a charging lead terminated in the standard USB type A male, but the charger / power supply provided a USB killing 21V ! Such adapters are I think quite rare, but even that solution can come to grief. To get that charger in 21v mode you need to negotiate wit...