Probably the best emulator to use to play these sort of games is Qemulator
- certainly seems to be more able to cope (unless they use copy protection
of course).
In fact, Q-emuLator can run most copy-protected QL games (for example, the
unpatched Psion Chess 1.0). But you need to own the original microdrive,
have a QL capable of reading it, and a way of moving files between the QL to
the PC (this usually means a QL with a floppy disk interface). Q-emuLator
includes a utility to copy the copy-protected files from microdrive to
another location while preserving the copy protection information.
That is interesting but how do you get the copy protection from the microdrive onto the QL floppy disk? It is normally a hidden sector on the microdrive, or specific number in the microdrive header....
Would be interesting to know if we could get QL Pawn onto Qemulator - but that loads specific sectors from the microdrive cartridge (not files per se).
-- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ
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