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I really would love to have one of these, but 7 for over $100 is a bit too much.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/364413139332

Saw a few of these pop up on eBay (3 or 4 listings). Only 64K RAM upgrade and the board looks huge. Looks to be from 1984...I guess any amount of extra memory was considered a plus.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/185634773667

Andrew wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2023 3:16 pm Merry Christmas!
Same old Santa, same owl, different gifts and a bit of bling!

I just came across Speccy game called Log Cabin Dizzy.

Welcome to the forum from the US!

I tend not to use vDrive's built-in utilities for formatting or bank mapping. vDrive is nicely set up with a text-based config file where you can do all the drive management under Windows. All you need is one good formatted MDV file and you can duplicate it and add it to the bank. Likely, the MDV fi...

- line 150: device should end with an underscore Oops, typo. - add a speed variable and add line 545 Pause speed (otherwise it is too fast to run in QPC or even on GC/SGC) GC sholdn't be a problem as that's what I'm sort of running it on (i.e. 4x). Don't these have a slowdown mechansim? - line 1390...

Ok, here is the final version. It has a bunch of random things happening. You have Christmas lights, you have window lights, and you have window shades. Also, the Grinch doesn't always launch all bombs. I also got rid of the weird mouth on the Grinch since it looked bad. When running it, it will ask...

Made some progress. Can you see the blinking Christmas lights?

Small GIF.

So a few more things to tinker with...maybe a shade closing, a room light going on or off inside a building. Then I'll include the zip file with the BASIC and all the sprites.

[Moving post from "New Microdrive Internal Replacement" to here to avoid clogging thread...so some of this context is found in that original thread.] So I understand correctly, QL-SD doesn't qualify to what Peter was talking about because it creates WIN storage not MDV? I always thought i...

HI, I tried to get the source code to PETSCII Robots, to port it to the QL, but last year, there all sorts of reasons why they would not let me have it. If you can give me a link to the source code, I will try and port it to the QL. Here it is. I would think the Amiga version would be closest, but ...