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My on-off use of the Q68 has been a partial success so far. I have been trying to configure the Q68 to look like my high resolution QPC setup and, in the process, have "mashed" the contents of quite a few 4GB SDHC cards. I am now able to easily format and partition FAT16 cards using Linux ...

I am glad you like it. It's not quite finished. It was designed around three particular Chinese components which may be difficult to find again, even though I bought them this year. The case is printed in four pieces because my printer is not large enough to print it in one go. The key board is sepa...

Again, thank you all for your help. I have finally managed to create a correctly partitioned SD card and have it recognised in slot 2 of the Q68. The process of learning to partition and format as FAT16 an SD card was certainly time consuming but the problem of getting the Q68 to read from slot 2 la...

My Q68 was set up as per Dereks instructions. I was hoping that I had missed something. One thing that is different is the version of SMS/QE that I have. The options shown by Derek do not exist on my version which appears to be 3.34. How does one clone the Q68 SDHC card and how can I grab a screen i...

Derek and Martin Head, I thank you both for your replies. They are bit too technical for me but they have proven useful. Are Martin and I really the only Q68 owners wanting to use a FAT card? Thanks to your clues I have already created two bootable Linux Distros with the Unix tool required to create...

No! Non! Nein! I have tried GParted both in live bootable form and within a live bootable Linux Mint. Nothing so far has produced a Q68 readable FAT SD card. The whole process is a real pain. Creating a live bootable Unix and getting my laptop to boot from USB is exceptionally tedious. I am not even...

by Peter » Thu Nov 16, 2023 3:28 pm Tinyfpga wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 12:33 pm One last thing:- the link to www.wlenrerz.etc. mentioned in the Q68 manual does not seem to work. Don't see it. Could you please point me to that manual page, so I can fix ? Page 11, 2nd to last paragraph in the PDF docu...

I have not used my Q68 in a long time but I am in the process of printing a keyboard housing to accommodate it. In anticipation of success I setup the Q68 to my liking but found , like Martin_Head, that I was unable to create a FAT16 partition on a 4GB SDHC card. I see that he asked for an idiots gu...

Thank you all for your replies. The HP tablet has no legacy mode, the people who formatted the "hard disk" suggested that this was because it was a cheap model !! I looked at PMB6 and superuser.com but found, without trying very hard, that I couldn't understand them. I will have another go...

I was an SMS2 enthusiast but knowing that its roots lie in the demise of the QL, and as a homage to the Sinclair design, I decided to amuse myself by printing a Quasi QL.. The QQL consists of a micro pc and wired USB keyboard running SMSQE at a display resolution of 1920*1200. The user interface is ...