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HI,

Here is my unfinshed update to the QL Service manual, which details Fault Finding in Section 2 and I have added Tonty Firshman's Fault Finding process in Section 6.

I must state I have a lot of work to do to complete the drawings of the QL circuit board.


QLSM04.pdf


The details of the ...

I am not sure if SCRAP is present till QPAC2 is loaded. The Scrap extension is part of Jochen's Menu-extension. The scrap menu is synchronized with the Windows clipboard using QPC_SYNCSCRAP.


HI Ralf,

Thank you, for the clarification, so the definition of Extended Environment should include ...

Hi,

The source code to C68 is available, could that be enhanced to produce reentrant code?

Just use QED, which will run from Microdrive on a 128K QL

This is normal for SBASIC. It only loads new names into the name table which are actually being used in the child job, and then they inherit their properties from their ancestors in the main SBASIC.

Ah' didn't know that.
As for your extension not working, it's generally not recommended to ...

Hi,

To remove a Hokey and leave the Thing present, use: ERT HOT_REMV (<key>)

Where <key> is the definition of the HOTKEY setup with on boot up to load the application as a Thing, which when the ALT <key> is removed, the Thing can be loaded with EXEP

I had to look in my printed copy of the QPAC2 ...

Hi,

The above is all good advice, but lack of display, in most cases is a faulty 8301

I would check the operation of CPU, 8301, 8302, 8049.

Hi,

I have been watching a Q68 video review on Youtube, not in English:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=UkALQzPsnhs

good video production.

In the message in the Wanted Section:



As for the ULA, I don't know if anyone has reverse engineered that one. It's probably quite simple.


As part of my Service Manual update, I was looking at the Microdrive, giving a more detailed description of the Microdrive circuitry Headboard and ...

I normally do not use microdrives, as I use QLSD, Drive, Oqtadtive, MicroPicoDrive so from 5 QL I have 10 Microdrive units.

... they sit in a storage box.