??? 11/11/2002 2:11:33 ??, ?/? Marcel Kilgus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ??????:

>
>Phoebus Dokos wrote:
>>>(for the ones that don't get that reference, "Sirius Cybernetics" was
>>>a company in Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" series.
>>>I somehow doubt this was ever a serious company name on earth).
>> Maybe an "Internal" Joke? Who knows?
>
>Yes, after having seen the startup screen it really looks like that. I
>got it booting up on QPC but it crashes after drawing the SuperBasic
>windows, I suspect it has a problem with my emulated microdrives. I
>remember those have often caused problems. Nonetheless very
>interesting.
>


It did that to me to, until I set it up for memory below 1 Meg... It recognizes 640K 
with 
no problems...

Its microdrive code must me weird though because although it reads the mdv files from 
QLAY, it cannot boot from them (you have to manually type lrun mdv1_boot etc...)


>And forget my advice for QemuLator (I thought only the 48kb limit
>bothered it), it still insists that it only works with known roms.
>Pitty really.

Maybe Daniele can help... Hmmm imagine Q-Emulator emulating Thors as well (Simon will 
jump hoops for that ;-)

>The original QDOS was optimised for size, not for speed. With 16kb
>more to spend more speed is probably much easier to achieve.

True :-)

Phoebus



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