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Impressive work! Did you re-engineer the whole GoldCard yourself, just from a piece of hardware? I re-engineer full copy of Gold card, very small differents ( battary and 5V adapter ). Other all parts is identical to original ( I use EP1810JC-35, not EP1810LC-35 ). I try to disassemble the INGOT5 c...

Alain Haoui made the Starter Kit, image on Floppy disk to make new partitoin on Compact Flash. After installing this kit your QL system will boot from Compact flash card.] Starter kit package in attachment. To use this kit, just unzip the attached file on a pre-formatted QDOS DD diskette and boot QL...

Thank you to all.

I change to "Card removal slot".

Thanks to George Beckett for some english language correction.
New version in attachment.

Nasta wrote:Would you be willing to post the PAL equations for the Trump Card clone?

Yes, no problem.
I have 1V4 equation only.
Only PAL1 ( 1V4 ) is important, PAL2 ( 2V4 ) is for DRAM only ( difficult and isn't necessary for modern SRAM memory ).

1V4 PAL16L8 euations and schematic of TC logic

Good stuff, Vitaliy! A re-read suggests that you might also want to highlight the implication of the QubIDE/QubATA address-space being fixed at 0C000h - namely that external plug-in ROMs will no longer be recognised, e.g.: "Because of the need to ensure compatibility of QUBIDE/QUBATA and Trump...

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I start this topic for technical info ( schematic, board layout etc. ). Because of my hardware page not finished yet. I think this is may be interesting for some QL users. I will add new info in future. I am sorry, schematic in Russian standard. 1. Miracle Trump card 2 768K and my clone. Original Mi...

What do you think about my text on TDI photo ( page 2) :

'Easy removing hole'

Is this correct in english? Or more good name is possible ?

...Oh, and by the way... Given that you have used the WDC PH-02-02 controller variant, does that mean that the Tetroid supports 1.44MB HD diskettes or even the (legendary) 2.88 ED disettes? This is interest idea, but... I randomly found several FDC chips, isn't guaranteed that WD1772-02 chips will ...