Richard Mellor wrote: > I too am looking forward to Peter's device
And let's not forget Adrian! :) > One of the benefits is that Daniele Terdina has already written the > routines for Q-emuLator to use the same driver as written for the QL and > hence write natively to the SD card from within Q-emuLator - making it > much easier to transfer files to the QL. To be more precise, an image file is accessed, which can be transferred to and from an SDHC card. At the moment, the image file resides in a fixed Qemulator subdirectory. I hope that a facility to freely choose the directory can be integrated into Qemulator later. Daniele also provided a DLL interface which would allow someone else to implement this (or other improvements). Please note that I defined the "Block Device Image" (BDI) interface for QL emulators in a way that is not restricted to Qemulator nor to QL-SD! It is a very simple and open interface for QL emulators, so *native* hardware drivers on the QL side can access block device images present on the emulator's host filesystem. Richard Zidlicky will also put it into UQLX. Whoever is interested can have it. If an emulator implements the BDI interface, the existing native side driver should also work there, making the emulator comaptible. > It must also be mentioned that someone else has reverse engineered the > Qubide interface and using it with his QL as an SD card interface - > unfortunately, the issue is how to get files to a Qubide formatted SD > card... Wasn't that compact flash (which is IDE compatible)? Or does he use some sort of IDE to SD converter? Anyway, Richard Zidlicky wrote native support for Qubide under Linux. Peter _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
