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Or you could use floppy disk image files. QPC2 supports floppy images. Or even my MDI/FDI drivers(plug, plug)

Just a little update.. I got around to trying to use the manual with the program to do the example. It didn't work too well.. I think the manual is for version 1 of Tridim, this is version 2. There is an update_doc supplied, that I have now translated which shows where I was going a bit wrong. But I...

Something you might have to look out for... I seem to remember from an earlier post about the 12 volts from the Thor PSU being fed via a resistor to supply 9 volts for the Microdrives. If the Thor has the 9 volt and 5 volt rails linked on the QL board. The 9 volt rail must be cut somewhere near the ...

While I think the idea of predefined 'levels' is nice. Somehow I can't see it working in practise. On one hand your basically dictating to uses what software they must run on their systems. I personally mainly use QPC2, and half of the software you put as 'must have' I don't have installed, and I do...

If that was a shorting link between the 9v rail and the 5 volt rail, I would expect mass death and destruction amongst the logic circuitry. Watch out for the 74LS... chips, they really shouldn't like more that 5 volts up them at all.

Take a look at the HT part (including the HT transformer) of the pcb. Maybe there is a desoldered part. If you don't know what you are doing, be very careful around around the wire with the poppy shaped connector that clips onto the side of the CRT. There will be a lot of volts there, even with the...

Think of the old reel to reel audio tape recorders. The faster the speed of the tape, the better the quality. If you are doing digital signals, you need the 'quality' Also I could see a potential problem in slowing the tape speed to get 256 sectors on the tape. You are libel to end up with a gap bet...

ON the board removed today I added the regulators I took off the board I was installing to the Thor. I have also noticed on this Issue 5 board I removed, that memory ICs 3, 5, 9 and 10 are getting very hot, +60 degrees within seconds. The screen seems to be constantly changing with different patter...

What's wrong with stopping the FSERVE job before you do anything else (maybe after having checked that the new station number is really different from the old one) and re-starting id after you're done? None of the channels the job might have open would be valid after the command has run anyhow. Rem...

This a routine for my IP Network driver. What I am trying to do is to change the network station number/IP Address that the driver is using. What I want to do is scan the channel table, looking for any open channels that belong to the IP Network driver. If it finds any, then the routine returns an '...