Op Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:09:09 +0100 schreef Wolfgang Lenerz
<[email protected]>:
Hi Dilwyn,
...
is a device which can read a Qubide format hard disk. I
think some people had used flash memory cards in Qubide QL systems, as
at one time there were IDE interface memory card readers. Provides a
means of getting large numbers of files to the emulator from a "real"
QL, rather than have to create dozens of QL disk images.
I'm a bit daft right now, but how would that work?
Use the rebel interface with a memory card and then plug that card into
a PC?
What would a "dir" from a PC find on that? One large container file?
Many small files? Nothing?
If, as I fear, a dir would show nothing (oerhaps because the PC thinks
that the card isn't even formatted) then there practically no chance
that I'd touch that. I'm not sure I could even if I wanted to - I don't
think I have raw access to devices from within Java, I can only get
access to files, which supposes a valid file system.
So don't hold your breath...
I think the other way around may be easier to realise.
There is already an option to access a QXL.win on a CD from a Qubide
machine.
(ATAPIQUB.bin, CDROM.bin from Thierry G.)
Could this be used/adapted to copy from a Qubide partition to a QXL.win on
a second hard drive or CF card?
Wolfgang, to answer an earlier question: my Vista laptop is indeed a
single core 2Ghz/32bit machine.
I do think the slowness is mainly a display (I/O?) "feature".
Sometimes windows & texts are drawn quickly and the next moment it's done
line by line (e.g. filling the Sysmon window or painting the shadow) or
character by character.
Did you know the bottom shadow is drawn first, then the right shadow?
Loading files seems fast enough, but communicating with the machine is
difficult when waiting for a cursor or pointer to appear and not reacting
to input most of the time. .
Bob
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