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Well I have purchased the Qemulator and still having trouble getting the Psion four downloaded and into floppy images that I can run on the gotek without getting Bad statement errors.

Will see if I can suss it out tomorrow

Thanks - i will look out for one of those.

I would like to try and get the Gotek to work as i have been able to get it to work on my Atari ST, and the BBC Micro with little pain, but the QL is proving to be a little more difficult.

I have downloaded the QEmulator but it wont let me do much unless ...

Am looking to transfer files from pc to Q L myself but can't locate these files either.

I have tried building blank floppy images with qltools to use with my gotek, transferred the Psion business apps to these imagesp and still can't get it to work.

I have a Serial cable and tera term and haven ...

I have to say I did bid on a couple and won one of the items.
Just getting back into using a QL after selling my original boxed one several years back, for peanuts I might add.
Thought I'd try and get another and did, but paid almost twice as much for an unboxed one with 'issues' and plastic bits ...

Many thanks Martyn
I'll see what I can find.

Many thanks for the response and the detail there in. A little over my head at the moment but very interesting read.

So to fix the duff MDrive, will it be a case of replacing its ULA?

I did see the work being done on the rom variant and that looks interesting.

Thanks

Thanks for the information.

I will go with an SD solution at some point as I have got such media working on the BBC Micro and the Atari (800 & ST).

I have had a chance to tinker with the QL this afternoon and have got some where. After cleaning all I could see, dusting, cleaning heads, reseating ...

Hi,
That's good advice. I'm not so great with soldering and would avoid it if I can.

I will try out the dismantle, reseating etc and see if that helps. I would like to stop the motors from spinning though so if I could find the cable that prevents this it would be great.

I have a trump card on ...

Morning.
With the case apart I can see the rollers are where they are meant to be.
I'm going to take the drives out and have a look around, there isn't much to look at but will remove dust and clean heads etc and see if I can dig out the volt meter to start troubleshooting.
I have located some ...

Thanks I'll look to do that in the morning.