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Just to close this off, I got a replacement rechargeable battery and that allows the machine to boot fine with the TDI.

I then spent ages trying to work out why the mouse would only move upwards, eventually to discover that the Atari mouse I was using was broken <facepalm>.
Trying a different mouse ...

Aha! I daresay you could be right - the battery doesn't look in the best of shape.

Thank you!

Thanks for the replies on this.
Having done some more testing, I think the QIMI is broken - even on the machine with no TDI fitted, it's flaky.
For example, scrolling a window causes a reset :o
So something as simple as
FOR a=1 TO 10:PRINT a: END FOR a
will trigger a reset when the window ...

Hi,

Anyone know if the the Tetroid Disk Interface and QIMI are incompatible? I have a TDI, which is wonderful, but also managed to get a not-known-if-working QIMI. Putting the QIMI in the QL only and I can get to the cursor OK. Add the TDI and I get constant resets on the black screen with the ...

You'll need Slug or something similar. Without it, on a GC it's way too fast and on an SGC it's insane.

I have the source (which assembles with Devpac) but it's not easy to follow!

Here are a couple of screenshots to show what it's like in-game:

Thanks. Many of the static objects are fatal when touched. The room to the bottom right from the start room is particularly difficult to navigate

It's Christmas (almost), so here is a gift to the community: a QL game I wrote as a teenager in about 1986 which I have managed to extract at last from floppies.

In true 1980s ad style, it features:
100% machine code
Isomorphic 3D
Interactable objects
Deadly traps and puzzles
lrespr ...

Tofro,

Can you reliably load data from the Spectrum to a QL? That was always the problem for any Spectrum/IF1/QL combination I have ever come across or heard about. If you can then that's great!
I'm guessing you're using an SG QL? Maybe that's the difference?