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Hi bwinkel!


When putting modified SD card back into vDrive, be sure to do a reset on QL for it to see updated changes.


This instruction is particularly important and, as it happens, applies equally to swapping in/out real MDV cartridges (and possibly even FLP diskettes) and is due to QDOS ...

RalfR wrote: Sun Aug 10, 2025 9:32 am Delicious...

Yummy!

Hi tonyt!

Adding a switchable 128kb EPROM is relatively straightforward - the most tedious part is accomodating the extra pins (A16 and Vcc) and re-routing the Vcc power pin from (current) pin28 to its new home. The Minerva carrier board already does the heavy-lifting of routing the A15 and CE ...

Hi everyone!

My own experience, now after about 10months of extensive usage of the QL-Core on my (KS2) Next matches tofro's feedback below. Similar on a KS1 clone (N-Go.)

Aside from the clunky FN key mappings, I find the system a very fine platform for my QL work - especially once you add the ...

Hi Jan!


Ever wanted to have command line history in Minerva by just pressing the up/down arrow keys, just as in SMSQ/E? Well, Minerva now has it!


Brill!

On a day to day basis, command-line history is the only thing I really miss when switching from SMSQe to Minnie (I know, sacrilegious to ...

Hi Richard

XChange certainly works on the QL-Core without issues.

You'll want to configure it's default directories to use 'win1_' instead of MDV or FLP, or possibly to use something like PTH or SUB to get QDOS to redirect MDV/FLP to a chosen subdirectory on WIN1_<somepath>

As for printing, the ...

Precisely, Will

'Proclivity'!

That must win our Word of the Day award, Dave!

Those darn 2-tone CPU sockets... How many have I trashed!

Morning Mark!

More great progress - well done!

Ok, so that apparent VPA bus cycle is not really a bus cycle, but a workaround for not having a dedicated 'Auto Vector' Interrupt Acknowledge signal.

All interrupts on the QL are thus hardwired to generate the Auto Vector approach to interrupts. In ...

Hi Derek

Yes, I provide power via a separate 2-pin 5v connector (though it could take power from Pin-20 as well.)

Is a 'PQI 128MB' - cheap, if I remember correctly, so probably not quite to standard anyway.

What is perplexing is that it formatted and was accessible under QubIDE 2.01, but not once ...