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- Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:18 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Q68 QoE Ethernet Driver
- Replies: 87
- Views: 25691
Q68 QoE Ethernet Driver
For most of the year I have been working on an Ethernet driver for the Q68. Its not finished, but I thought that I would release one of the development versions for people to try, and to get some user feedback on any problems seen. I have tried to make the driver as compatible as I can with the IP d...
- Sat Dec 12, 2020 10:54 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: ql printer repair woes
- Replies: 39
- Views: 9902
Re: ql printer repair woes
There's a chance that the Seikosha SP-1000 was also re-badged by other printer manufactures, Like Star, or Oki, or Citizen. That might increase the chances of picking one up from the likes of Ebay.
- Fri Dec 11, 2020 11:32 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: ql printer repair woes
- Replies: 39
- Views: 9902
Re: ql printer repair woes
If the printhead has been disassembled, then you are probably in big trouble. It's libel to be very difficult to get all the needles back into the right holes. When the printhead was made, it's likely that the needles were much longer, making assembly easier. Then the needles were cut off to length ...
- Thu Dec 10, 2020 11:02 am
- Forum: Online Auctions
- Topic: Crazy Ebay prices
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10590
Re: Crazy Ebay prices
Especially as two of them are free anyway.
- Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:59 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: ql printer repair woes
- Replies: 39
- Views: 9902
Re: ql printer repair woes
When you say that the printhead is only partly working. I am going to assume that you mean that some of the needles are not firing, due to them being gummed up. Try immersing just the end of the the printhead in isopropanol alcohol (not the whole printhead) and let it soak. If you can get at the end...
- Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:03 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: General Microdrive woes
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4649
Re: General Microdrive woes
If the tape head was misaligned, I would expect that the drive would work with cartridges that it formats. But the cartridge would not be interchangeable with another drive unit. Another possible problem, is that the tape head has become magnetized. I don't know if the Microdrives can suffer from th...
- Mon Nov 30, 2020 4:40 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: My listing is eating itself...?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3459
Re: My listing is eating itself...?
Are you loading any SuperBASIC extensions, or other machine code stuff. That's the kind problems you can get if the maths stack gets messed up. What you can get, is like a time bomb. If the maths stack gets messed up, every thing seems OK for a while, then BANG, things fall over nowhere near the act...
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 5:01 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Sam the Little Spaceman
- Replies: 60
- Views: 17680
Re: Sam the Little Spaceman
Here is updated MDI driver. I have done a quick test on the CONVERT2_MDI command. But it seems to work OK in Qemulator with JS and Minerva 1.98 ROMs. It looks like I also did a fix for a block checksum problem in the FORMAT routine some time ago, But I don't remember doing it :) If I use the ROM ver...
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 4:47 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Sam the Little Spaceman
- Replies: 60
- Views: 17680
Re: Sam the Little Spaceman
Just checked my QDOS Companion too. My notes for IO_OPEN (Page 39) are as follows: D2 may not be preserved on exit. See QL World, December 1986 Page 43. A1 is not preserved unless a TRAP #4 was done first!!! It seems I had problems too, some time back. Cheers, Norm. There is a Trap#4, just before t...
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 11:02 am
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Sam the Little Spaceman
- Replies: 60
- Views: 17680
Re: Sam the Little Spaceman
EDIT. I don't know if it's just a typing error here, but I think the games filename is 'littlsam.mdv' not 'littlesam.mdv' I called it littlsam.mdv to keep it in 8.3 character form for when I copied it over to the fat1_ of my Q68 after dumping on the real QL! I did rename the filename to the correct...