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tofro wrote:How's the speed? The sprites seem big enough to keep poor 68008 pretty busy.

Tobias

Hi Tobias,
the speed is quite good.

Detlef

Here are the files. Needs JS more than 128k and is copy protected ! Detlef alias QLObi Some corrections: Runs only at JS with 128K and no Toolkit. The copy protection is removed ! START trap #0 move.l #$c000,d2 moveq #$41,d0 jsr LoadFile1 'MDV1_SEG_AA' loadadress 212992 move.l #$757f,d2 lea File2,a0...

Hi Richard, may be it make you happy to hear, that i showed a running copy of Hoverzone an a BBQL (without your explicit permit, sorry) to the broad public at the GamesCom in Cologne last week. Ok, broad means only the people which were interested in RetroGames. (There were 350,000 visitors in 5 day...

Hi Derek, i have a 3 digit Gotek already tested. I work fine as long as you not try to format with a QL It is ignoring that). If you create an image on your PC, all partitions are MS-DOS compatible. If you than put the stick in you QL you can't format to the QL format. Not tested, but a possible wor...

Hi Peter, i am still surprised that you need addtional hardware to use a virtual floppy. Just buy a GOTEK Floppy emulator, jumper it as drive A and connect to your floppy controller. Shown on the 30th Ql user meeting by me. You have than 100 disks to fill with data. Only buy the version which has th...

Hi Tobias,
do you ever played FTC (or FTC II)? That's definive a cultic game!
Even more complex than something like ELITE.

Detlef

Is a circuit drawing available from the Aurora board?
Just for a new retrofit project !

Qlobi

Bending out the pin will not give the right result. In minimum you have to connect pin 27 (with is A14) to the corresponding adressline of the QL connector. If than the decoder does an incomplete adress decoding you have a chance to get it to run !

Detlef

Hi Peter,
The crispy display at the show was caused by the TV i used as a light weight travel monitor.
If you use a real VGA monitor it looks differend.

Detlef

Hi Derek, i draw my configuration on a paint picture. Hopefully not to technical. The other picture shows the real converter as used on the Edinburgh meeting. Detlef ps: As already mentioned, best place for protection resistors is as close as possible to the QL. But easiest is at the pinheaders of t...