Re: [Ql-Users] Copying files from QL to PC

2009-06-03 Thread aupf82
Thanks for the replies. I had tried the /B flag, but it didn't help. I have looked round a number of QL sites, and the implication seems to be that what I'm trying to do is possible. Can anyone confirm whether they've managed to do this successfully? Quoting Dave Walker

Re: [Ql-Users] Copying files from QL to PC

2009-06-04 Thread aupf82
I sent an e-mail last night but I'm not sure if it was received. Anyway, I thought I'd try to copy from my real ql to a q-emulator ql over the serial port, and I'm getting better results that I was getting using a DOS prompt. I'm getting so close now I can taste it. Using q-emulator's

Re: [Ql-Users] Copying files from QL to PC

2009-06-04 Thread aupf82
OK, I've found the answer here, http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/2602/ql.html I'll have another go tonight. Quoting aup...@dsl.pipex.com: I sent an e-mail last night but I'm not sure if it was received. Anyway, I thought I'd try to copy from my real ql to a q-emulator ql over

Re: [Ql-Users] Copying files from QL to PC

2009-06-04 Thread aupf82
Thanks for that. Would it be possible for you to write up the information you've learned and I could put it on my website to help other users? Sure. Quoting Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk: I sent an e-mail last night but I'm not sure if it was received. Anyway, I thought

Re: [Ql-Users] Copying files from QL to PC

2009-06-05 Thread aupf82
I finally managed to get this to work. I will post details later. Thank you everyone for your help. Quoting Marcel Kilgus ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net: Daniele Terdina wrote: [The QL User Manual implies that COPY also copies the headers, as there is a COPY_N command to copy without

Re: [Ql-Users] Copying files from QL to PC

2009-06-05 Thread aupf82
Daniele - just wanted to thank you for an extremely polished piece of software (q-emulator). Many thanks. Daniele Terdina wrote: [The QL User Manual implies that COPY also copies the headers, as there is a COPY_N command to copy without headers, but it doesn't seem to work that way]

Re: [Ql-Users] Copying files from QL to PC

2009-06-06 Thread aupf82
Here is what I did; I wrote it so that hopefully even someone in my situation (i.e. pretty clueless on QL tech aspects) would be able to get results. I am not a regular QL user; but I am very fond of my QL, and occasionally fire it up to remember how things were. It was the first *real*

[Ql-Users] Commercial game copy protection mechanisms

2009-06-06 Thread aupf82
Hi, I wonder if I might impose once again and request some more help? After recently transferring some files from microdrive to QemuLator, I am having problems getting a commercial game working. The game is called Wanderer and was produced by a company called Pyramide. On the real QL, a