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QL vDrive upgrade

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I’m guessing that you won’t be bored then!
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stephen_usher wrote: 24 Dec 2021 18:54 I’m guessing that you won’t be bored then!
I suspect boredom is unlikely!!
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Excuse the mess of cables, but I finally got to testing the dual FDD with my Gold Card last night and it works just perfectly. I need to start building a nice collection of useful software for the QL now that I have it nicely upgraded.

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And floppy contents in the GUI:

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Nice (M)Ice. It's a pity that so little software used that mouse interface.

Lots of software on Dilwyn's web site.
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stephen_usher wrote: 05 Jan 2022 10:09 Nice (M)Ice. It's a pity that so little software used that mouse interface.

Lots of software on Dilwyn's web site.
Yeah I need to visit his site and have a scour around.

Mice is nice, but not the best of GUIs, but a nice try for the time. I do have some of the software that came with it, which is nice.
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ARTice isn't bad.
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stephen_usher wrote: 05 Jan 2022 11:47 ARTice isn't bad.
I have MiceART, ICEICLE (That's how it's spelled!), Sprite Generator and Toolkit. They all came with Mice when I bought it.

I managed to image and transfer to vDrive carts, but need to spend some quality time with them :)
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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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Damn you both @rubber_jonnie and @stephen_usher - I have only gone and bought the QL vDrive and mapper. :)
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Icky wrote: 18 Jan 2022 20:06 Damn you both @rubber_jonnie and @stephen_usher - I have only gone and bought the QL vDrive and mapper. :)
I'm usually damned for some reason or other, so nothing unusual there :)

And I'm sure you didn't need our help to push the buy button!!

Let me know if I can help at all :)
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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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:lol: Welcome to the world of QDOS madness. :-)
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