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This brings back memories. When Lau Reeves wasn't crafting Minerva code he was working on his Mandelbrot speed trials. No idea if there was any connection

I was a founder member of Peter Rowells group and we started in Lolworth. I'm pretty sure the picture was taken in Lolworth Village Hall. A very busy group at one time. We were also at Coton for a while. PCs were moving in by then.
Numbers declined eventually until we were meeting at Peters house ...

Thanks for testing. It hangs on my Minerva QL with Trump Card and vDrive attached. Guess it’s deconstruction time…

Derek_Stewart wrote:Hi,

MDUMP_task is a Turbo compiled programme, so maybe this could be decompiled and debugged to all QL Rom platforms.

Or have it recompiled under Liberator

imho mdump is a microdrive dump program so i would try with a microdrive image


It is. But I think the only place you'd really want to use mdump_task would be on a real QL to make dumps of real cartridges. I can't think of a use for it in an emulator.

And it certainly requires an original ...

I already have Tk2 in the QL as part of Trump Card and Minerva

Yeah on a MacOS that's not there - there is a folder "QL Software" but I don't see it there.

However I did find a floppy IMG file of it but when I try to run EW MDUMP_TASK it throws up because HEX$, REPORT and something else aren't loaded.

I bought the v2 QEmulator package for MacOS and reading the manual mentions MDUMP TASK utility for imaging microdrives - except I don't seem to have it in my QL Software folder as expected. I don't see it as a download on the QEM site, nor can I find it in the usual suspects.....

What or where am I ...

Ah yes, OK, same concept but achieved by different means :) Pretty sure those things didn't exist back in the day - we used long-pin turned sockets (designed for thick multi-layer PCBs, I believe). Got the scaling wrong on Mk I and the pin pitch was just fractionally under 0.1", requiring a bit of ...

Lau said he has all his QL stuff in a lockup somewhere. It might still boot, who knows?
I still have mine, bought in 1990 (£445, at the time I decided to go for MHD instead of a Atari Falcon - I didn't like the GEM front end - regret it now :( ). It still works OK (very noisy though) , Lau might ...