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 ?)...
Would it not be possible to write new code for the QuBIDE ROM itself which would manage to open the QXL.WIN file on the harddisk and run its boot program - or am I asking too much??
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