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Sorry to disappoint, but there is no news of new RomDisqs being available...

However, how much interest would there be in a 3D printed case for the QL RomDisq - expected price would be £9 + Shipping + VAT

The design would be based on the QL EPROM cart design.

RWAP wrote:Sorry to disappoint, but there is no news of new RomDisqs being available...

Was someone tasked/hoping to re-produce them?

Chr$ wrote:

RWAP wrote:Sorry to disappoint, but there is no news of new RomDisqs being available...

Was someone tasked/hoping to re-produce them?

There is only Tony FIrshman who has made them in the past, but he said "there is too high a minimum order for the chips required, plus I have forgotten how to make them"

Hi,

I asked for a Romdisq to be repaired, but I got the same reason for not repairing the Romdisq, high minimum order quantity of the flash ram chips.

Which strange, as I can buy them easily at no minimum order quantity.

But I doubt that the design files will be released to me for construction.

Derek_Stewart wrote:Hi,

I asked for a Romdisq to be repaired, but I got the same reason for not repairing the Romdisq, high minimum order quantity of the flash ram chips.

Which strange, as I can buy them easily at no minimum order quantity.

But I doubt that the design files will be released to me for construction.

I think the main issue is that there are no design files!

Be totally obsolete anyway, once the QL-SD ROM thingy comes out . Mind you, I'm probably not the only one quite partial to obsolete stuff.

Romdisqs should be re-made. I suspect it's possible nowadays to go bigger than 8mb fairly cheaply?

Granted, ROMDisq is about as compact as it can get. QL-SD ROM is about 1cm deeper but actually also a bit narrower. Other than that there‘s probably no advantage to it.

By the way, a printed enclosure would be a good thing for QL-SD because there‘s nothing to stabilise it in Z-direction when changing SD-cards. Does still work of course.