In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phoebus Dokos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writesI think he is referring to the same four modes you quoted to me. Jochen said that Peter told him that the hardware would only support these four modes. I don't know why that should be.I imagine this is due to hardware since, for the Q60 at any rate, the master
chip has an entry for display which can only take 4 different values. I
suppose it is the same for the Q40.QLAY only permits windows > QL file mapping with separate headers (like QemuLator but not automatically)What does this mean ?
That means that you can basically do the same with what QPC's DOSx_ device does only that it is used as a WIN drive. Moreover that means that because DOS drives lose the QDOS headers, some extra information has to be added (either as extra file information on QemuLator or as a separate file on QLay/QL2K/Qlay2)
So imagine a directory on the PC side named: c:\QL
If you map that directory to the QL emulator (any of the aforementioned ones) as Win1_ , doing a dir win1_ while in the emulator you get a directory of all the files on c:\QL. Moreover you can execute them too (unlike QPC's DOSx_ device that only permits extensions to be loaded)
uQLx, permits mapping of directories in the native filesystem to a WINx, mapping of QXL.win files to a win device as well as (if run under UN*X) mapping of raw devices (ie a Q40 partition such as /dev/hda1 if that's your SMSQ/e partition) to a Win device (so you can access both physical and logical drives)I am afraid it will have to be a little more basic than this. We are trying to write something for beginners so it will have to be something easy to understand. This is the trouble. Many of our manuals are written like this and so people do not read them. What do you mean by mapping ?
QemuLator permits mapping to both directories and QXL.WIN files (the latter only on the "Expanded QL" registration
Finally QDOS Classic when run on an Amiga -or UAE so long as the Kickstart rom is NOT the QDOS Classic rom but a real Amiga ROM ie like running on a real Amiga- permits the attachment of REAL QubIDE drives. On the PC that has the sideeffect that you can run UAE with QDOS Classic and PHYSICALLY attach your QL hard drive on it.
All of the above permit no "format" of the hard drive (except QDOS Classic that has the complete QubIDE rom on it) For formatting one should use wxqt2 + qxltools.
See above what I mean by mapping... as to the "how" this varies by emulator:
on uQLx you either have the uqlx.rc file or use a GUI that does that for you
on QLAY/QLAYW you do that by editing the qlay.rc file (as above)
on QL2K/QLAY2 you do it by either editing the qlay.rc file -or- by using the MDV/WIN configuration option on the gui
on Q-emuLator you click on one of the "microdrive slot" items and select the appropriate option
Note here that Q-emuLator maps all three devices (FLP,MDV, WIN) regardless of actual type of device... so if you attach a QXL.WIN file to Slot 1 you can access it with either dir mdv1_, dir win1_ or dir flp1_ :-)
How do you do it? Etc. I am trying to produce clear instructions on how to do things.
Can't get any clearer than that :-P
Ffibys
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