Am Mittwoch, den 18.08.2010, 08:07 +0100 schrieb Rich Mellor: > Well, its another day, and some good news for the QL at last :-) > > We have now successfully tested the HxC Floppy Disk drive emulator with > the Sinclair QL home computer, meaning that you can now copy raw images > of Sinclair QL disks to an SD card, and then connect this floppy disk > drive emulator to your QL's disk interface and read/write to an SD card > instead of floppy disks. > > The latest v3.0 of Q-emuLator supports raw disk images, so when that is > officially released, you should be able to use that to get software into > the raw disk format required. Then all you need to do, is to convert it > using the supplied HxC software, copy it to the SD card and then hey > presto, the QL sees it as a floppy disk! At the moment, I can only get > Q-emuLator to read from raw disk images, although Daniele is working on > raw disk image support. > > You can copy any number of floppy disk images to your SD card, and then > use the buttons on the front of the control panel to set up which disk > image is to be seen by the Sinclair QL as FLP1 and which is to be seen > as FLP2. > > Currently, it only appears to support DD disks, although I daresay it > will work with other disk types if I had some raw disk images of QL HD > and QL ED disks to try (I cannot make them on my PC). > > Ideally, we need to find some power supplies which can be used to power > these units - at the moment, we are using an old external floppy disk > case. Also, for some reason, both the Gold Card and the MicroP disk > interface we have here needed the cable the other way around to the QL norm! > > This means that the HxC Floppy Disk Drive Emulator available from > SellMyRetro.com > <http://www.sellmyretro.com/search/naturalSearch?keyword=hxc> has now > been shown to successfully work with all of the following equipment as a > complete replacement for the good old floppy disk drive:
Well, Rich, you haven't got much of an echo to your announcement - probably accounting for summertime and holidays. I myself find the achievements you made with the floppy emulator quite remarkable. Some questions: - does the equipment come bare-bones or is there some sort of housing for the PCB? (I'd rather not have open PCB tracks lying around considering the state of tidyness my desk is usually in...) - How far have you come regarding ED emulation? Any achievements made? I think, given the storage space an SD card offers, ED emulation is a strong one on the wish list. - Does the emulator accept SDHC cards (above 2 GB) - You seldomly find smaller ones nowadays. Cheers Tobias _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
