Well there is the MESS emulator found at:
http://www.mess.org/
Its seems highly unstable at the moment, but it does aim to emulate all
the hardware correctly.
Malcolm
Well, I've got so far with this - here's what I found so far, in case anyone
else wants to try this ql emulator (well, ql is one of huge number of
systems it emulates - over 250 in all!).
MESS stands for Multiple Emulator Super System, which is based in turn on
MAME, Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, and uses the same software engine,
but is for home computers and video game consoles rather than arcade game
systems.
1. Download and unzip the binaries for MESS from www.mess.org and unzip to
Windows drive C:\ (may create folder like mess0125b).
2. Create a folder called "roms" inside this folder, if it doesn't exist
already.
3. Use Google to search for "mess"+"bios"+"ql". This includes ROM image, IPC
image etc, which aren't part of the package.
4. Save the ql.zip file in the ROMS folder. Note: it can stay zipped - MESS
will handle it zipped.
5. Easiest way now is to run the QL from the MESSUI.EXE GUI and scroll down
to QL, double click on this. All being well, the QL will now start.
6. You may find it's full screen and ESC doesn't let you quit from it, or
you can't get the commands toolbars with TAB. If so, CTRL ALT DEL and end
the mess task. Go back to MESSUI.EXE andchoose the Options menu, then
Default System Options, then the Miscellaneous tab and check the "Use new
UI" chechbox. There's also options to run maximised, run in a window and
many other options.
7. It offers 5 devices - MDV1, MDV2, SER1, SER2 and cartridge. Not got this
far yet, but the MDV files options looks for files ending with .MDV which
I'm not sure about yet. Possibly they are snapshot files, or possibly like
QLay .MDV files? At this point I've got stuck and all I've been able to do
is type in a few lines of superbasic.
So it looks like we have one more QL emulator for Windows!
Dilwyn Jones
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