Yeah chipset manufacturers drivers and controller Commands. Quantel must be proprietary amended systems. Yes monopolies laws had not penetrated back into those earlier years. Legacy. Nvidia I seemed to remember doing great till driver support was corrupted in terms of standardisation. Games and compositions parting ways. TV. Live versus Edited. Arrested Development in terms of Standardisation. Well highlighted. Cheers for the entertainment. Augmented reality of course nowadays with VR and decent latency responses to phase lock loop are the dog's bollocks! The mind reader or programmer. Mwhahaha. Licienced intellectual properties. They file off serial numbers or cover them with heatsink and fans. Then tech support and drivers go walkabout. Then liciencing initiatives are updated sending price fluctuations between blue chip companies. Shares. In that delay time everyone figures they may as well start from the ground up with proprietary overhaul. Desynchronus from other manufacturing chains. Static servers. Nice rack equipment. It's like yacht racing. You would not expect the result of another boat hitting rocks to be penetrating the hull of your own vessel. No, they hit the rocks so they have the damage. Assistance is pressuposed but liabilities still stand. Insurance companies, repairs and parts and labour.

Thanks Ian!

There are too many quantel things! Please send help! 🤣

So i hear, it would be awesome to get one running. But solving the issue of the Dylan disk array is a challenge.

@@DextersTechLab I once swapped a Seagate drive in a Dylan array and went to lunch whilst it was rebuilt. when i returned the whole machine room was filled with smoke. seems the drive had several of the bypass caps installed backward and they all exploded a few minutes after I leave for an hour... I was not very popular upon my return...

@@DextersTechLab I'm still hoping for that Quantel disk format emulator, so I can read all my old Quantel MO disks!

It has come up in discussion, but of course it needs someone to commit time to do it

I'm holding my breath! :P

Yes i agree, i would love to use the Paintbox to generate something, might be tricky to do it though!

I never saw Painting with Light back in the 80s, Wish i had though! It's an honour to keep the light burning for everyone.

@@DextersTechLab BBC series painting with light, where a series of contemporary artist use the quantel paintbox to create works of art. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kM6Ei7tk1qi5mGQ.html "Painting with Light". Sidney Nolan. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mJN6o6xlys3QYqM.html "Painting with Light". David Hockney. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r96WnZpzs7zKe58.html "Painting with Light". Larry Rivers.

Thanks, i have seen them a few years back. I know Chris who uploaded them. There's still few episodes we haven't managed to source.

Indeed! It's quite a rare beast. One of my discord members is going to be looking at it in the future.

Sorry for the belated reply! Thank you for your comments. I just can bear to see this wonderful old tech get forgotten. Happy your enjoying the Quantel coverage, there is more to come!

Oh thank you, though they probably use a different interface that i don't think would be compatible with HAL. It's probably fiber. I do want to help get your machines running BTW, it's hard to get time away from my crappy day job, hopefully we can do something for you in the future.

This is an option, but just add up what 20* SCSI2SD cards cost! We also are not sure if they are fast enough.

Yes, we can unlock any v-series Quantel machine of this era to max options!

Oh i like that 🤟

Hey, good to see you David, i want to keep the Sun original anyway!

I guess it's expired.

fixed, sorry!