Wednesday 7 November 2018

SerNet and DEV an excellent combination to connect a floppy drive to a Q68

The Q68 uses SDHC cards both as its hard disk like storage and as it's removable media.

There are (currently) no other physical storage devices for the Q68.

However it does have a serial port. So with another QL type system ( with a decent baud rate) connected via a null modem cable and using Sernet and the dev device the following SBASIC command :

DEV_USE 1,S2_FLP1_

a SBASIC or using the files thing  can now access flp1_ on the second QL second identified as S2 by sernet.

A powerful combination of  existing software enhancing the functionality of new hardware.

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