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I’ve no idea about a solution but I do like the picture of a herd of qsounds!

Thanks, I got a notification for this so all looks good now

Many thanks

techfury wrote: Mon Mar 17, 2025 9:14 pm It does seem that email notifications seem a bit broken at the moment, thanks for letting us know. I'll dig into this right now and see what's going on.

Thanks techfury

Since the forum moved I don’t seem to be getting e-mail notifications for subscribed topics

Am I the only one please?

Many thanks

techy wrote: Mon Mar 17, 2025 5:10 pm And is it more-or-less usable ??

I haven’t tried to do much so far as you obviously can’t use QIMSI etc with it, so need to try it with a Floppy Controller

techy wrote: Mon Mar 17, 2025 1:54 pm Has anyone ever tried this ?

Yes, I have a Tyche in a real QL

But it’s using a chr$ Rom board which may not be what you mean

Solved!

I did the flash update without any improvement, but as I was about to open it up again to check the continuity of the button press I realised the knob was at a slight angle

So I opened it up, made a very minor adjustment to the case so it fits thru easier and now it seems to be working ...

Over the times of flashfloppy development, some earlier firmwares had issues with some rotary encoders. I think what I'm pointing to, is make sure the firmware is recent.


Thanks. The firmware is only 1 version out of date but will give it an update to the latest to see if it makes any ...

I'm a prat

I purchased 10 off DSDD 720K Floppies and I could only format a couple of them, and they were very temperamental

Then I realised I'd set the config to 80 tracks per side, but only 40 in total for the disk (though this actually was a bit of a red herring) so corrected that, still no joy ...

If I remember correctly you will need a tape/tape image to make the boot floppy unless you already have one or an image thereof!


I don't think the Opus needed some sort of boot floppy. All went from ROM, there. That was the +D Disk interface (Miles Gordon Technologies) that needed boot ...