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- Wed Apr 30, 2025 8:28 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Floppy drives not working
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2035
Re: Floppy drives not working
Interesting. The data sheet for the NEC drive says it wants 12Volts
It's actually 5V only- I have a few Miracle Systems double drive boxes with two FD1037As each. Internal PSU only puts out +5 and uses two pin connectors to the drives. One of mine had a bad PSU (damaged transformer), so I ended ...
- Wed Apr 30, 2025 8:24 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Odd Hardware Items
- Replies: 10
- Views: 643
Re: Odd Hardware Items
Kind of reminds me of a NEC FD1139T as well, except the NEC doesn't have the stepper motor on the back. (Used linear voice coil, no really.)
- Fri Mar 28, 2025 9:46 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Q_Liberator malaise
- Replies: 253
- Views: 30095
Re: Q_Liberator malaise
Thank you, Martin! I was hoping that someone would be able to add some more context around those snippets of code.
I am currently going through QLib_run_asm trying to add comments
This is what I have for these areas
Involves FOR loops.
I am mostly working on the initialisation stuff at the ...
I am currently going through QLib_run_asm trying to add comments
This is what I have for these areas
Involves FOR loops.
I am mostly working on the initialisation stuff at the ...
- Thu Mar 27, 2025 6:29 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Q_Liberator malaise
- Replies: 253
- Views: 30095
Re: Q_Liberator malaise
I've been doing a bit of digging into this, mainly out of curiosity since I recently received a QXL...
There are some "interesting" sequences of code in qlib_run_asm:
Here we seem to be testing bit 30 of a pointer in A3 (I apologize for not understanding the context of this in the least, but that ...
There are some "interesting" sequences of code in qlib_run_asm:
Here we seem to be testing bit 30 of a pointer in A3 (I apologize for not understanding the context of this in the least, but that ...
- Sat Mar 22, 2025 7:08 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Another Trump Card clone...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1292
Re: Another Trump Card clone...
I suspect it doesn't need any of the funky timing for RAS / CAS that the original GAL's use to provide.
But was the trick to relocate the ROM used I wonder? (needed for non Minverva versions of QDOS)
This is the correct answer, no more RAS/CAS timing logic. And yes, the ROM relocation logic is ...
- Thu Mar 20, 2025 12:35 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Another Trump Card clone...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1292
Re: Another Trump Card clone...
Hi Techfury,
Thanks for the info! I have already ordered the components. And I have two spare WD1772 at hand.
I assume these work just as well as the WD1770?
Instead of the GAL I will try to make it work with an ATF16V8B. Those are still being made and sold.
I might redraw the board so the card ...
- Tue Mar 18, 2025 10:26 pm
- Forum: The Off-Topic Section
- Topic: Forum E-mail Notifications
- Replies: 4
- Views: 320
Re: Forum E-mail Notifications
Thanks techfury
No problem!
Sorry this took a whole day to sort out, but the long story short is that the hosting provider decided to block outgoing SMTP (even on ports 465/587) to external servers about a week and a half ago, and didn't tell us.
Unfortunately, I spent a whole day going ...
- Mon Mar 17, 2025 9:14 pm
- Forum: The Off-Topic Section
- Topic: Forum E-mail Notifications
- Replies: 4
- Views: 320
Re: Forum E-mail Notifications
It does seem that email notifications seem a bit broken at the moment, thanks for letting us know. I'll dig into this right now and see what's going on.
- Mon Mar 17, 2025 9:03 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Another Trump Card clone...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1292
Re: Another Trump Card clone...
It does get fairly warm but it is not too hot to keep your finger on. There's a copper fill underneath the 7805 to help reduce the heat- I've found it does a great job of keeping the warmth confined to that single corner.
As far as power reduction, here's some quick "back of the envelope" math ...
As far as power reduction, here's some quick "back of the envelope" math ...
- Thu Mar 13, 2025 10:21 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Quanta Library
- Replies: 12
- Views: 725
Re: Quanta Library
Right here. Self-deprecating humor is allowed.