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It looks fine to me. It's not a dry joint, as far as I can tell from the potatograph.

It can be that simple. I used a BASIC once that required a space between every element.

You don't use the parentheses when calling a procedure or function. Only when creating it. I imagine that carries across.

If it's an original SGC, it's time to reseat the IC's, and hit them with some contact cleaner while they're out. Time to check all the solder joints. If Derek made the floppy cable it's not likely to be that.

Did you try the floppy on both connectors? Or try flp1_ and flp2_?

The best QL editor/IDE might have the following features:

Doesn't need line numbers
Automatic indent, configurable. 2, 3, 4 spaces. 240x75 that'll be useful
Allows context colouring of keywords
Highlights indents
CTRL=> on DEF PROC or FN calls jumps you there, on RETurn jumps you back
Same with ...

If it's just the floppy section that is problematic, the first place to check is the cable. The SGC may use a different cable to a normal Shugart interface on other QL floppy drives.

If you suspect it's the IC, replacement DP8473V are available.

The combination of responses here leads me to keep it simple and have the code erase, write and verify, then trigger a reboot or reset.

I have group emailed the maintainers of Minerva and SMSQ/E in the hope of a final go-ahead with my scheme here. The hardware is settled, with room for one more ...

Hi all,

I've used flash a lot, but mostly from the hardware side or using ready made tools to flash newly assembled boards for testing or firmware updates.

I love seeing you talking about finer details of flash programming. I'm aware of the timing requirements and flash's feedback mechanism when ...

Ello,

It doesn't help that there are a variety of speech and LCD protocols that would have completely different drivers.

This is one of those times where if you'd thought in this way about the overall structure of the commands you were creating, you might have done it differently from the ...

I think it's more to do with the fixed capitalization of BASIC keywords. Seeing things turned into I2C_Say_Resume or etc..... It does seem like Sinclair put a lot of effort (even if accidentally) into their keyword design. The command says only what it needs to. Capitalization was used carefully to ...

Exactly.

I'm using a flash that has a boot block with extra protection as that is just what I already have. It's a bit of a PITA sometimes. On the final boards I might use an evenly sectored flash with no boot sectors set aside.

I think it might be easier to port from C than Z80 assembly. The ...