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I haven't replaced mine but it doesn't get very hot...a little warm towards the back end but it's never warmed up my vDrive.

Cool...it's like the big brother of my vDrive :-) vDrive-case-normal.jpg I do like that it saves space. I actually don't have any space to the left of my QL...one reason I did that mod. Is the QL VGA STL available? That one looks like it was made by Sinclair Research. At first glance I thought "...

Wow is that a big board...

Been playing around with various QL art programs on a BBQL: Leonardo, Peintre, ARTice. The first two didn't work too well and were a bit slow so I stuck with ARTice. Imported a black & white TIFF file (QLTIFF_bas) and then colorized it in ARTice (with the limited mode 4 colors). Came out ok...th...

A secondary question. We have vMap which is specifically for vDrive. We also have an flp_use (or similar) command for remapping to different devices. Has there been an attempt to write a software version of vMap so say you could map a microdrive (or maybe any device) to a different physical drive. S...

So I was trying to run ARTice from my vDrive's MDV8 and it just sits there Have you tried if MDV2 works? Could there be an MDV number limit of 2 buried in the software that testing MDV2 would demonstrate if it worked with the existing changes you have identified? Oh, that's a good idea...I'll try t...

So I was trying to run ARTice from my vDrive's MDV8 and it just sits there (I don't have vMap). I had gone into the main binary and replaced three instances of MDV1 to MDV8. Two were just text for menu options and shouldn't impact anything, but the third was pointing to a critical support file calle...

Thanks again for the info. I will look through both your code and theirs to get an idea of how it works. Haven't done any 68K assembly since the 90's and did more Z80 in the 80's so it'll be re-learning some of that (now days I spend more time creating my own machine/assembly language as a teaching ...

One driving factor is resource hungry media and the platforms that host them (browsers).

Yes, it should still be compatible with QDOS. The changes for SMSQ/E were mainly in the BASIC parser, the tape I/O routines haven't been touched. Another question, your BASECODE needs to run in ROM for timing reasons. There's a utility for a Spectrum emulator that also uses the QL network ports. It...