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BREAKING NEWS : I have tested Pudge with the just released v1.6 of Minerva4Q68 and as far I can see it works now, except for the sound of course. I have added the SLUG command which can be used to slow down the Q68 (0 = full speed, 255 = slows down to a crawl; 128 will be about original QL speed). ...

I would try it in Q-emuLator with both Sinclair and Minerva, to see if is a Minerva issue in general, or specific to Q68. Most games use the keyrow IPC QDOS trap. On Sinclair ROMs, the trap works fine when the rest of the OS is halted or disabled. Yes, but this depends on the IPC hardware being emu...

I've recently been playing around with pre-historic QL games etc but using my Q68. I've been booting it with Jan's Minerva mod for the Q68 (here: https://github.com/janbredenbeek/Minerva4Q68) and in conjunction with Martin's MDI microdrive device driver I can get an original cart assigned as mdv1_ ...

Would that be extra colours in mode 4 as well, or just mode 8? I'd love 8 (or more) colours in mode 4. I have a feeling it's been mentioned that it's not for mode 4 though, is that right? In mode 4 there are only two bits available per pixel, so extending that would require relocation of the displa...

If you have Minerva you can use CALL 390,<new RAMTOP>. E.g. CALL 390,(384+128)*1024 gets you 384KB RAM.

What version is the Trump Card's ROM? I know that older versions work only with DD drives and have problems with HD/ED drives.

There are two versions of my driver, one UQLX2017, and one UQLX2018. Don't know what the difference is yet. I might try looking through old posts here, It might remind me. And I will fire up my old Linux PC and see how many different UQLX's are on there. UQLX versions before 2018 used *tcp and *sck...

Minerva4Q68, like Minerva and other QDOS variants do not have a MACHINE extension, but there is a programme on the QL Homepage that can do this, whether this will help with identification of the version of QL hardware is unsure. It's actually very easy to add this, I will put it on my to-do list. M...

I'm surprised you can not see the same effect. Which hardware and OS are you using on the QL side? In my case Issue 5 QL motherboard, Minerva ROM, QIMSI, SuperGoldCard running SMSQ/E. Issue 6 QL, Minerva (but that's irrelevant since you have to run SMSQ/E for SERnet), QIMSI and (non-Super) GC. I st...

I'm surprised you can not see the same effect. Which hardware and OS are you using on the QL side? In my case Issue 5 QL motherboard, Minerva ROM, QIMSI, SuperGoldCard running SMSQ/E. Issue 6 QL, Minerva (but that's irrelevant since you have to run SMSQ/E for SERnet), QIMSI and (non-Super) GC. Mayb...