[email protected] wrote: > Problem is endian. My recollection is Qx0 hard disk format is > pretty much QXLwin except that QXLwin on a PC is organised in the PC byte > order
No, that's not possible. QXL.WIN are written and read in sectors of 512 bytes, everything else is handled on the SMSQ/E side of things, which of course uses big endian. The only place where the little endian system unfortunately shines through is in the 16-bit screen layout. This was done for performance reasons on the QXL, but I'm still not happy with it. I guess the main difference between a QXL.WIN file and a Q40 drive is just that the Q40 disk can have multiple partitions and thus (usually, looking at the code it seems to be optional) has an Atari partition table first. The raw partition data itself should probably be compatible, however, so an image of that could potentially be used as a QXL.WIN file. I don't think anybody has ever tried that, though. Marcel _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
