Today I Received...

[XorA]

Have now received the USB-disks (the inbuilt drive of my old stationary PC does not work ) and it works with QPC2 but neither with Q-Emulator (assigned A: to Slot 1) nor with UQLX on Windows with WSL2 (used DEVICE = /mnt/c/a in .uqlxrc) nor sQLux (tried DEVICE = A:/ and DEVICE = /mnt/c/a). I will look if theres something like SUBST (DOS command) for Windows, so that one can map the floppy drive to a directory?

Why /mnt/c/a? That would translate to C:\a

I dont personally use windows so Im not sure if DEVICE=FLP1,A:,qdos-like would work or not!

What absolutely wont work as windows doesnt have the same all devices are files as POSIX OSes, is DEVICE=FLP1,A:,qdos-native

[swensont]

I've not used the USB floppy drive directly with any emulators. I've used 'dd' to make a floppy image file and that works fine with the emulators. I don't plan on writing to floppy, but now I can archive the ones that I have.

Tim

[jobdone]

@swensont, I tried a usb floppy on sqlux not long ago. I couldn't format it, but I could use the drive to boot from and write to it etc.

[XorA]

Have now received the USB-disks (the inbuilt drive of my old stationary PC does not work ) and it works with QPC2 but neither with Q-Emulator (assigned A: to Slot 1) nor with UQLX on Windows with WSL2 (used DEVICE = /mnt/c/a in .uqlxrc) nor sQLux (tried DEVICE = A:/ and DEVICE = /mnt/c/a). I will look if theres something like SUBST (DOS command) for Windows, so that one can map the floppy drive to a directory?

Why /mnt/c/a? That would translate to C:\a

I dont personally use windows so Im not sure if DEVICE=FLP1,A:,qdos-like would work or not!

What absolutely wont work as windows doesnt have the same all devices are files as POSIX OSes, is DEVICE=FLP1,A:,qdos-native

Scratch that, if your an Administrator then DEVICE=FLP1,\\.\PhysicalDeviceX,qdos-native should work. replace X with the proper number for the floppy disk!

[dilwyn]

A Minerva ROM board for my spare QL from Chr$. Thanks Chris!

The Minerva ROM board

Underside of the board

[RalfR]

Looks very professional!

[M68008]

Arrived just in time for the weekend, planning to experiment with electronics...

Also got two of them with the SMDs already assembled.

[martyn_hill]

Ooo! Intriguing project, Daniele!

Any comments to add???

[Peter]

Arrived just in time for the weekend, planning to experiment with electronics...

A Raspberry Pico connected to the QL ROM port, to be more specific.
A new mass storage device or mouse interface maybe?
Just a little hint:
If you have no power supply plane, you should try to make the VCC traces wider.

[M68008]

Just a little hint:
If you have no power supply plane, you should try to make the VCC traces wider.

I appreciate the advice, thank you! I'll change it in the next version, it's currently 0.4 mm.
Better I don't show you the other side then as there is not even a ground plane. I plan to revisit that, but with so many traces across I just skipped it for the prototype.

It's only my second PCB project, if I exclude a MIDI interface for the QL I did in the 90s. My first one was a high resolution timer for the QL, as an exercise.