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Hi, my apologies for the late reply, Christmas extended times...

Chr$ wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2023 11:59 am Yes, I can cut some up. PM or email me.

I'll do at once, thanks!

Víctor.

Answer to old post, my apologies.

Hi Chr$,

I'm in the need of having some 50 felt pads. Are they still available?
Thanks in advance!

Some progress. I replaced the Z80 and now I get this. So this seems to be part of the startup sequence where the ROM is checking how much RAM you have (not checking if the RAM is ok) but then doesn't continue to clear the screen and put up the "(c) 1982 Sinclair Research, Ltd" and cursor. It does ...

Hi everyone, this may have been asked before, possibly several times. I'm experiencing a repeated phenomenon with microdrive cartridges, where if load a known, working cart, it will work for one or two or more reads and then never load again, reporting the "bad media or media changed error". This ...

Thanks Christian!

De nada , JupiterJones.
If you use Minerva ROM, also the following discussion may be useful:

https://www.theqlforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2599&p=25232&hilit=poke%21%2153%2C128#p25227 Thanks again! Unfortunately I don't have Minerva ROM yet. I've read that thread and the ...

Perhaps the following topic may help:

https://www.theqlforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3006&p=29431&hilit=microdrive#p29431

Thanks Christian!

Somehow things have improved. I managed to format one microdrive re-felted and could get the directory. So far, I managed to read three microdrives NOS ...

Hello everyone,

Some feedback about this issue. Finally opened the QL and found that C35 capacitor had one of its legs cut. It was an apparent attempt to re-attach that cut leg by soldering but after some time it broke again, I guess.
I also took the chance to reflow TV modulator connections which ...

I did sell pre-cut felt pieces on ebay pretty cheaply, but after a couple of thousand I decided to take a break as it's fiddly to do. But if you want some felt pieces that seem quite reliable so-far for re-felting, let me know.

Hi Chr$,

Thanks for the offering! But I wrote the phrase worngly ...

Hi everyone,

So here it is... both MDV of my QL are behaving badly. MDV2 never worked since I get the QL: when I do a DIR mdv2_, it starts spinning and it does not stop until I hit the reset button.
MDV1 did work (at least to some extent, I managed to get contents of one of my cartridges, the rest ...