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Yeah new exe is non optimised and probably with some debugging info.

One thing I have noticed is I really need to add some error checking, typoing the image here crashes badly :-)

Yes i have made some changes in my side.


void* OpenQLDevice(char *name, int mode)
{
int sectors, err;

hxcfe ...

Hi all,

Decided to try the LCD version, albeit I swapped out the lcd for one I had lying around. I prefer black on white. Also disabled the backlight.

Would love to get the disk browser software able to read QL images so can easily browse files. No luck so far.

Ian.


Not yet the graphical disk ...

The PC IMG loader seems to read the first sector and derive information from it, the QL first sector is not the same as the PC one I think?

qltools build files as needed, so they are not automatically a valid size. Only genuine way to tell what
type of disk is to analyse the first sector data.

It ...

Ok some more updates in the github.

Also updated the ql_loader for libhxfe and added writing support so we can go both ways .img->hfe and hfe->.img.

http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9660#p9660

I do not have access to a windows build system to make binaries for all you windows guys ...

@Dave :
I am refering to this :
http://www.theqlforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=725#p5390
http://www.theqlforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=725#p5396
http://www.theqlforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=725&start=10#p5407
You seems to believe that Lotharek is selling thousand of devices per month, but this not ...

Jeff your API is nice and easy, after a couple of hours hacking (mostling issues with old 32bit assumptions on 64bit machine in qltools).


LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/graeme/Work/hxcfloppyemu-code/HxCFloppyEmulator/build/ ./qltools qlboot_img.hfe -d
qlboot
1116/1440 sectors.

boot 74 29/11/101 11:32 ...

What is your company ?

Sandy Electronics.

Well, i have just saw your others messages on this forum about the hxc price. It seems that you are looking for a cheapo floppy emulator and for sure we cannot offer you something at the expected price.

My advice : Since the QL machine use some very ...

Otherwise there is a library (libhxcfe) providing FDC / bios like functions to directly access the disk images sectors. With this, this shouldn't to be hard to add file image support to these softwares.

Hi Jeff, funny you should say that, I was just looking at the libhxcfe API :-)

I might try ...

wxqt2 was what I was thinking of but just tried it under wine and it seems its hardcoded to use a real floppy drive :-(


Have you tried to use it with VFD ?
http://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_drive_emulator/vfd_hxc.zip

Otherwise there is a library (libhxcfe) providing FDC / bios like functions ...

The Trump Card has a WD1770 or WD1772, depending, and supports SD and DD but not HD or ED.

I am working on becoming a US distributor for the HxC, but they only offer dealers/distributors the same retail pricing they offer the public, which leaves very little margin. I might not be able to do it ...