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: > > > .../... > > 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 ?... > > .../... > > 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.
