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QL vDrive upgrade

Any 680x0 based information, repairs, images, upgrades and other cool stuff that is not Atari and Amiga based but based on the Motorola 68K range of processors
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stephen_usher wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 6:12 pm
rubber_jonnie wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 5:33 pm

Or floating in the channel!!

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Nah, Russians aren't targeted by the Home Secretary.
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Woo hoo, the Gold Card is finally in the UK after 10 days in limbo!!

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:girldance: :girldance: :girldance:
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Yay! :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :dualthumbup:
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stephen_usher wrote: Thu Dec 23, 2021 3:31 pm Yay! :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :dualthumbup:
My thoughts exactly!!
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Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
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From Russia with love:

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@stephen_usher It arrived after pretty much exactly 3 weeks, so Tetroid's estimate was spot on :)

Letting it warm up now before I give it a try later :)
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:D :D :yay2: :dualthumbup: :cheer: :girldance:
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ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
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stephen_usher wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2021 9:46 am :D :D :yay2: :dualthumbup: :cheer: :girldance:
3 guesses what I'll be playing with tonight!
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Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
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Father Christmas came a day early.
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ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
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stephen_usher wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2021 12:28 pm Father Christmas came a day early.
He certainly did, I got back from walking the dog and the Postie had been as well as the parcel folks:

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And the IKEA storage boxes arrived too, so I have lots to do in my 10 days off 😁
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
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And here we are running at 16mhz with 2MB RAM, ICE GUI and mouse 😁

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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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