Norman Dunbar wrote:
Evening Rich,
Thinking about it - which emulators can use a qxl.win file maybe we just
need a smaller subset of this which would be floppy disk size?
Can someone please share the details of this format?
go to http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk and there is a section on QL
filestystems. I have documented the QXL/QPC "hard disk" there.
The direct link to the article itself is
http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/doku.php?id=qdosmsq:fs:qlwa (Hopefully
that stays all on one line!)
Cheers,
Norman.
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Hi Norman,
I did not want to discuss this with the list, and wondered if you may be
interested in a little project I have in the back of my mind.
Basically, someone has devised a piece of hardware which connects to a
floppy disk port on a computer and then provides a USB connection to a
PC which can act as a fileserver where disks are stored.
See
http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html#USBFloppyemulator
QL hard disks could be stored and read using the RAW format, but I think
it would be more useful if QXL.WIN files could be accessed -
particularly when you come to the bottom of the page, where the designer
is working on a SD card version of this hardware, so that you do not
need to be hardwired to a PC.
The source code for dealing with the file formats is available on the
site also - written in C++.
Any thoughts or comments you may have would be much appreciated
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