The Sinclair QL Forum

Happy Birthday, Big D!

Thank you for your enthusiasm and perseverance supporting our community

Can't wait to hear about the bigger projects coming soon!

A little update for those following this project... On-going progress is being made with the interfacing between the microcontroller and SMSQ/E (to add-back the native NET and FSERVE/Nx_ device drivers) - should have more to report in the next few weeks. Meanwhile, mostly out of curiosity, I picked-...

Very nice piece of software, Martin - thank you!

With more new-old users coming back to the original QL, I reckon the native networking of the QL will start to get more use

Hi Jean-Yves

Yes, that looks right - positive polarity in the centre/inside (curiously referred to as the 'tip') of the 2.1mm (inner diameter) x 5.5mm (outer) barrel at 5V/1A.

Good luck.

Hi Sparrowhawk

As regards power-supply - I am using a regular USB-type 'wall-wart' supply that can supply up to 1A, but I hacked the mini-USB end off and soldered-on the 2.1mm plug (+5V to the inner conductor) - which are pretty standard and easy to get a-hold of.

Hi PrOf Just a slight correction... serial transmission is done by the CPU and is bit banged, using a couple of bits in one of the zx8302 registers. Whilst quite a bit of preparation seems to take place before QDOS writes to the 8302 for SERial transmission, the actual transfer is byte orientated (t...

...which for our non-US readers is 11th January (not 1st November!)

Will you give us any clues?

Can't wait

Glad you got it, Whopper. Yes, I paid around 40-quid for mine (albeit, with a working MDV unit.) If you don't get the extension cable with it (I don't remember seeing one in the listing), then take a look at the the Spectrum section of SMR for some cables sold by Rich/RWAP: https://www.sellmyretro.c...

Hi Whopper

I recently saw the following ZX MDV (non working) on Sell My Retro and thought of buying it, but as I already bought one for my vDrive, thought to leave it for someone else to enjoy!

https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/detai ... king-29090

Good luck!

M.

Very nice - well done!