On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 01:45:16 +0200, Thierry Godefroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 10:53:13 -0400, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 16:29:41 +0200, Thierry Godefroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> The problem is: how would you boot up SMSQ/E from the hard disk then, > given that Qubide and QXL.WIN partitions are not compatible ?...
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Thierry, Zeljko is asking about the second possibility (ie do away with the QubIDE format/ROM alltogether and have a new driver compatible with the QXL.WIN standard from SMSQ/E). A driver like that could be modified (whereas sources of QubIDE's driver do not exist) to support newer QubIDE developments like FLASH writing etc.
This is what I understood, but the problem I exposed is still there in that case: how do you boot SMSQ/E given it can't fit the ROMs on a QL motherboard ? You got to boot it from either the harddisk (but without the Qubide ROM fitted it would not be recognized before SMSQ/E is booted, and with the ROM fitted, the partitions are incompatible), from a floppy (like for old MS-DOS machines ? That would suck, IMO), or from RomDisq (but what if the user got no RomDisq on their system ?)...
Thierry.
Hi Thierry,
I understand what you say, but on the other hand, SMSQ/E came about especially for new hardware, so maybe it is time to move ahead.
The standard QL cannot deal with the higher resolutions that SMSQ/E has anyway and QubIDE roms will be good for standard QLs. Even so, we can still have a smallish QubIDE partition whose job would be to boot SMSQ/E and then disappear ;-)
As for a romable SMSQ/E; it CAN fit the rom of an Aurora :-)
Phoebus
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