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Hi all ! game restarted. Vitaliy kindly repaired my Tetroid card for CF chips and now, it works OK again. In the mean time, as I have two QLs (one JM and one JS), I bought a second Tetroid card, this one with Minerva, to supplement my JM QL. So, by now I have 5 CF chips, two 8Gb one 1Gb and two 512M...

1.) Scart or Composite Video Cable https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sinclair-QL-High-Quality-RGB-Scart-Lead-Video-Cable-TV-Lead-SGC-Compatible-/260814300633 I am surprised by this Ebay offer, because I did my own SCART cable for my QL, and with the sole QL plug, it worked only with a special video monito...

Use Minerva ? yes indeed ! I use a JM QL, because it was my first one, that I bought in 1984 (with aQWERTY keyboard, because it was not even officially imported in France - with an AZERTY keyboard). I soon added a Sandy SuperQboard which added 512K ram, interfaces for parallel printer and floppy and...

To be noted : the boot loaded by the starter kit works only with JS (and after) ROMs. With my JM ROM, it does not. (but I don't care, I use my own boot - and setup).
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Even simpler : change the name of the BOOT file (rename it). On next startup or reset, the QL doesn't find it, so it starts by default with nothing ; Question : how did you initialize and partition your (8Gb ?) CF card ? If you used the Haoui starter kit floppy, it loaded a lot of files in partition...

2/ transferring all my 720Kb floppies into the two last partitions of my 1Gb CF card (DOG8 part.22 and DOG9 part.23) This was done selecting the destination with PET n and using commands "WCOPY flp1_ to win2_Bi_Dj_" (i=1 to 8, and j=1 to 14); I had 8 boxes of 14 floppies to transfer, four ...

Hi Rich (and all) ! Following your advice, I contacted Vitalyi and will send him my card, and he will see if it could be repaired. In the mean time I want to show to you all what I did with this hardware before it went down : 1/ My SETUPs I tried different ways to partition the 8Gb CF chip, but with...

Hi Derek ! Yes, thank you for your advice to talk with Tetroid. However, the issue of my Tetroid is not a bent pin on the expansion port ; it was a joke : I noticed that (due to the number of my posts) I no longer was a "shuggy midrodrive" but now a "bent pin etc." . So I signed ...

:cry: Hi all ! Help ! :cry: I believe that my Tetroid card for CF chips is dead ; it was sometimes momentarily "sick" over the last month, but now, it absolutely refuses to boot ; typical boot message : QUBIDE/QubATA Driver – V3.10BT(AH) Timing calibration >.......?<Done> Detection >>.<Don...

Hi all ! Not sure I put this in the right sub-forum !? Since I got my Tetroïd card, I play again with my faithful old QLs (a JM and a JS) - no longer with my PC emulations. After trying several different partitionning schemes of the 8Gb CF that went with it, I think that because of the limited RAM s...