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I am not sure, but i think the eprom ic on the kludge should be in the left ic socket.

Try checking for bent pins in QL expansion port. Try reseating all the chips in the Trump Card.


I was always wondering, why sinclair put a male euroconnector on the QL mobo, instead of a female. With a female euroconn, if there was a bented pin issue, it would be on the expansion card and quite ...

Do you mean refelt?

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(This does, however, absolutely not explain why you do not see the same stripes with a JM ROM - while the random pattern is shown, the ROM and CPU mostly haven't done anything yet. The only explanation for that could be different electrical characteristics of that ROM (i.e., not the contents ...

Hello again. As @lliont stated, the white line occured only with the Minerva firmware. When i switched to JM the white line disappeard. As for the dram ic, i replaced a TMS4164-15NL with a TMS4164-12NL and i think that is ok.

Derek_Stewart wrote: Wed May 16, 2018 8:30 pm Hi,

APL is a good language, I always wanted it on the QL, it is good that the APL rom is freeware now.

If help is needed reading the ROM, I can help.

Hi! Is by any chance available the Apl rom file?

Hello.
A few weeks ago, i repaired a QL with a dram ic issue by replacing one 4164. From then, i get a few random crashes on boot. I installed the Minerva 1.98 OS, but i don't get any ram errors on boot. What i spotted is when i press the reset button i get a white stripe in the middle of the screen ...

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