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I've just been going thru testing my various ROM dongles and I have one with no label

I dumped the contents and at the start of the ROM it says "QL PASCAL Version 1.8"

I was wondering if anyone knew which PASCAL this actually is please?

Many thanks

t0nyt wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2024 11:43 am I dumped the contents and at the start of the ROM it says "QL PASCAL Version 1.8"

I was wondering if anyone knew which PASCAL this actually is please?

Many thanks

It's Metacomco Pascal

Andrew wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2024 12:20 pm

t0nyt wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2024 11:43 am I dumped the contents and at the start of the ROM it says "QL PASCAL Version 1.8"

I was wondering if anyone knew which PASCAL this actually is please?

Many thanks

It's Metacomco Pascal

Many thanks Andrew

(By pure co-incidence I have original MDV's for that on the way to me to go with it)

I think the ROM isn't original as I've just opened it up and found the circuit board is stamped "Care"

t0nyt wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2024 1:44 pm I think the ROM isn't original as I've just opened it up and found the circuit board is stamped "Care"

That is OK. Care Electronics was, to my knowledge, the only producer of these ROM dongles and all the software houses (QJump as well) used their dongles.

tofro wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2024 2:09 pm

t0nyt wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2024 1:44 pm I think the ROM isn't original as I've just opened it up and found the circuit board is stamped "Care"

That is OK. Care Electronics was, to my knowledge, the only producer of these ROM dongles and all the software houses (QJump as well) used their dongles.

That’s good to know, many thanks tofro

Well the original Metacomco Pascal MDV's arrived and they are v1.4 (my existing dongle is v1.8) and I was able to MDUMP them to mdv images

Fortunately the MDV's also came with a v1.4 ROM image

But when I load the v1.4 ROM image in Q-emuLator and try to run Pascal it complains the ROM isn't present or is the wrong version

I've not yet tried burning the ROM to an eprom to test on a real QL as yet though

But I was wondering if anyone has any other thoughts please?

Many thanks

Hi,

Prospero Pascal is on the QL Homepage, which the rom image v1.15 is included.

I loaded this into Q-emulator, which recognised the ROM in startup, and entering PRL loads the rom.

Have copied the ROM correctly?

t0nyt wrote: Wed Oct 16, 2024 6:28 pm But when I load the v1.4 ROM image in Q-emuLator and try to run Pascal it complains the ROM isn't present or is the wrong version

How do you load the ROM?
In QEmulator -> QL Configuration you must load the Metacomco ROM as "Back ROM" and set it to "Active"
I tested with v1.8 - there is no message that the ROM is loaded, but programs ED (editor) and Pascal (compiler) work.

Derek_Stewart wrote: Wed Oct 16, 2024 6:51 pm Hi,

Prospero Pascal is on tge QL Homepage, which the rom image v1.15 is included.

I loaded this into Q-emulator, which recognised the ROM in startup, and entering PRL loads the rom.

Have copied the ROM correctly?

I don’t have PRL?

Many thanks