Better OS for QL+Trump Card 2

[belg4rion67]

Hi all, I've purchased a lovely trump card 2 interface with 768 Kb ram (thanks RWAP!) for my QL and I have possibilities to burn any type of operating system so I would ask to all what is the best solution for standard QL+trump card 2+qimi+hermes (now I've Minerva 1.98+TK2 2.12 on 64k eprom)
Any suggestion will be well accepted
Cheers
Paolo

[tofro]

Paolo,
Sorry to disappoint you, but your combination would not be able to run anything better than what you already have (SMSQ/E, which would be the next step after Minnie 1.98 would at least need a GoldCard).

What is it what you're missing in Minnie 1.98? Maybe you can boost your experience through some of the various toolkits available?

Regards,
Tobias

[dex]

Of course, the Window Manager (wman) and Pointer Environment (ptr_gen) should run happily under QDOS with Minerva ROM.
For the windowing environment, SMSQ/E is not necessarily required (some applications may require it, but not all of them).

[tofro]

Ha,
right - I tend to forget those two guys as I somehow take them for granted on my QLs! You want a Qimi or SerMouse (Qimi only second-hand, SerMouse should still be available from Jochen Merz), however, to support a mouse. The EE works with the cursor keys, but that's not very convenient in my opinion.

Tobias

[belg4rion67]

ahh that's right my friends... I don't want to buy a gold card... is not cheaper for me now, in effect I want to explore some feature and some softwares written for our QL but I don't need more speed or power; I'm a romantic vintage man so I'll try to work with QL same as guys in 80's
I've already a 2 buttons mouse with qimi and it has also battery backup for real time clock; my question is if toolkit on trump card 2 is full so I can burn a new eprom with only Minerva or is a good choice to use minerva and tk2 on eprom AND toolkit on trump card

[RWAP]

The Toolkit 2 provided on the Trump Card is indeed the full version - so you can remove that from your Minerva ROM and make some more room.

[tofro]

Paolo,
to my knowledge, the TrumpCard had the full STK II on board (Plus Miracle's SDUMP plus the floppy commands) - So you could use the ROM space in the Minerva EPROM for something else.

Regards,
Tobias

[belg4rion67]

thanks a lot guys your suggestions are very useful... I'll prepare asap a new eprom with only minerva.

[belg4rion67]

... when the trump card will arrive I'll test new eprom with it; I'll inform you about work in progress

[belg4rion67]

Now I've modified my Minnie eprom to cut out last 16 Kbyte so TK2 is not operative:

I wouldn't prepare a pcb so I made a piggy back mod

This is a view of my QL with some other mods:

..and now I'm waiting for tc2