The Sinclair QL Forum

vanpeebles wrote:.... Currently it's running with a german keymap so I need to work out how to change that. ....

That's loaded with Paul's standard boot program on sdc1_ Just remove the line that LRESPRs keyboard_german and you're done (or buy a proper keyboard ).

Tobias

Hehe I did that with help from XorA. I've never had enough storage to use a boot file, so it was alien to me!

BTW any chance of the software being released so we can make images and load them with software from out emulators?

RWAP wrote:XorA - you have a PM - yes, it is standard RAM chips (41256P-15) - although I may have spotted the problem - half the chips are MB81256-15 (no real difference), but two are MB81257-15 ....

Arrived this morning and debugged, it was one of the MB81256-15 chips that had failed.

Will have to build a machine with fixed expanderram + QL-SD tonight!

G

XorA wrote:

RWAP wrote:XorA - you have a PM - yes, it is standard RAM chips (41256P-15) - although I may have spotted the problem - half the chips are MB81256-15 (no real difference), but two are MB81257-15 ....

Arrived this morning and debugged, it was one of the MB81256-15 chips that had failed.

Will have to build a machine with fixed expanderram + QL-SD tonight!

G

Great - glad to hear it is back up and running.

What's the going rate on 512K expansions? I priced out that I could make one with a certain cost, but it seems risky to me to make 20 or so if the possible gain is £100 but the possible loss is £600. If the market will bear the cost of a short run, I'd do them if they would actually find homes fairly quickly.

I can't comment on the going rate - I tend to sell second hand ones for £35 each if they have a through connector....

Okay. Seems reasonable then that a superior brand new one with thru-con - or internal leaving the expansion port free - could sell for £40 then.

I'll give it some serious thought this evening and discuss it with Nasta.