Peter Graf wrote:
> Before you get tempted too much, please consider the SDHC card driver
> issue. QDOS Classic and Minerva both work on the Q68, but the QL-SD
> driver clashes with other extensions. Similar effects were seen under
> Qemulator and UQLX, for which the same native driver minus the hardware
> specific code exists.

A few months ago I bought a QL-SD for my original black box. Then I
tried to adapt the driver to QPC. I wanted to add hot-swapping but
found it extremely difficult to implement due to the way the driver is
organized. It doesn't follow any of the QDOS conventions but always
does its own thing. I found it very difficult to understand. Then I
experienced some data loss and somewhat lost interest. Interesting to
hear that there are known problems with it.

> 3) Wait until someone else has solved the QL-SD driver issues.

That's what I'm hoping for now, too :-P

> All we do is without guarantee or timeframe. I have lost track of SMSQ/E
> completely, so I'm not sure how much help I can be. And like must of us,
> I suffer from lack of time.

I, too, have offered in the past to port SMSQ/E to new platforms, but
in this case the hardware unfortunately didn't materialize. I could
still be bothered if it's just a port.

I was actually once offered a quite huge sum of money for porting SMS2
to a new hardware but ultimately declined because I got the feeling
that "porting" there meant "also make drivers for all of the
newfangled stuff on board", which for example would have meant
creating a complete USB stack for it. In 68k assembler. Thanks, but no
thanks.

Cheers, Marcel

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