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Well, v2.19 seems to work on v1 of the Trump Card. It seems that someone else here on the forum did the same thing:
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Both floppy drives are working.
@Dilwyn, is there anything you want me to test with this version? My QL knowledge has faded over the last decades
But I'm catching up.
I can read MS-DOS formatted disks with DIR ATR1_

Can you check if the V2 ROMs can create directories with the MAKE_DIR command?

Don't mean to talk down to you with this - if you already know this stuff, sorry!

Best to do it on a spare floppy disk, as you may find the disk is not fully readable on a v1 system if a directory has been created on the disk.

Enter the command:

MAKE_DIR flp1_testdir_
(MAKE_DIR is a new command on level 2 file systems for creating directories)

Then do DIR flp1_ , it should then show something like

MyDisk
700/720 sectors
testdir ->

The "->" symbol after a name in a DIR list shows it's a directory.
The numbers might differ.
You should then be able to save something into that directory, e.g. a BASIC program called myprog_bas

SAVE flp1_testdir_myprog_bas

If you then do DIR flp1_testdir_ it should show the filename you just saved.

Then it should let you LOAD flp1_testdir_myprog_bas

Should prove that the level 2 file system works on the upgraded Trump Card.

Haha, no worries! I did forget quite a bit. Never knew a level 2 file system existed.
But... so far good news! It seems to be working! Made the subdir, saved a small program, rebooted the QL and loaded it again. No problems so far.
Forgot to TK2_EXT initially. So, the level2 is part of Toolkit v2? Not part of the Trump Card ROM?

Anything else I can test? I'm heading out the door now, but should be able to do some more testing tomorrow.

Out of interest I just tried this on my Trump v1 768K and it seems, as Marcel_X says, to work fine

Marcel_X wrote: Sun Feb 16, 2025 3:16 pm Haha, no worries! I did forget quite a bit. Never knew a level 2 file system existed.
But... so far good news! It seems to be working! Made the subdir, saved a small program, rebooted the QL and loaded it again. No problems so far.
Forgot to TK2_EXT initially. So, the level2 is part of Toolkit v2? Not part of the Trump Card ROM?
Anything else I can test? I'm heading out the door now, but should be able to do some more testing tomorrow.

Thank you Marcel_X (and t0nyt). Looks like adding a v2 ROM to a Trump Card 1 does work, then.

Good point about the MAKE_DIR command, I'm not sure if it's part of the Trump Card ROM or the Toolkit 2 part. Will await anyone else's confirmation of that.

Can't think of anything else to test atm apart from checking whether the ATR device still works with v2 to read DOS/Atari floppy disks.

Make_dir needs TK2_ext first so I assume it's part of TK2

ATR_DEV followed by Dir ATR2_ spins up my floppy 2 but I only have 1 720k ms-dos disk and it seems to be unreadable (it's not been accessed for 30 years so I'm not surprised it doesn't work)

Though from what Marcel_X posted it sounds like he has ms-dos disks to perform some tests

Yes. ATR works. I managed to load a small SBASIC game onto a disk via a USB floppy drive connected to a Mac (Yes, that works!). And I could run it on my QL.
And I found an old Logitech driver disk and could read the contents as well. Surprising how reliable these things are.
Will try tomorrow if subdirectories work with ATR as well. Or did that already work from the beginning?

Ah, don't know about that, sorry.

Marcel_X wrote: Sat Feb 15, 2025 7:28 pm But because I never really liked the looks of the black metal heatsink, I thought I'd give it a makeover... So modelled up a cover and 3D printed it.

Wonderful artwork! Looks great.

Albeit it seems now to be clear, a comment from me:

There are definitely EPROMs for the Trumpcard supporting Level 2 filesystem with subdirectories. Indeed Trumpcard was my first extension supporting level 2 FS about 1993 or so. Fortunately I have an EPROMer. The first version for Trumpcard with FS2 was from a German programmer. Could have been Albin Haessler, but I'm not sure. And I'm nearly sure' that I have a V1 Trumpcard.