creating floppy disks with Greaseweazle

[Traindriver69]

Hi All
I have just got my QL working but no software to run on it but I do have a greaseweazle which can create floppy disks and some software called flux my fluffy floppy but it does not see the ql software I have downloaded Is there a way of using my greaseweazle so I can create some floppys to run on my QL.

[XorA]

Use qltools https://github.com/NormanDunbar/qltools to write the QDOS software to floppy images.

Then write those to disk using the GW!

[Traindriver69]

sorry to be a pain but is there or could you let me have a little bit of a walkthrough on how to do this in windows as I have looked at qltools but as I am an Idiot I cant work out how to transfer the files an Idiot guide would be much appreciated.
Many Thanks

[swensont]

Dilwyn has a page with information like this:

https://dilwyn.theqlforum.com/gen/backt ... ktoql.html

See if it is useful.

Tim

[bwinkel67]

You can also use Q-emulator to write to an actual floppy -- it can be a USB floppy. OI forget if you can format it directly, but if not you can do the formatting on the QL-side.

[XorA]

You can also use Q-emulator to write to an actual floppy -- it can be a USB floppy. OI forget if you can format it directly, but if not you can do the formatting on the QL-side.

The same is actually true of sQLux too, there was a discussion on it on the forum somewhere. I keep forgetting it can do it in Windows too as I'm a 100% linux guy!

[dilwyn]

You can also use Q-emulator to write to an actual floppy -- it can be a USB floppy. OI forget if you can format it directly, but if not you can do the formatting on the QL-side.

The same is actually true of sQLux too, there was a discussion on it on the forum somewhere. I keep forgetting it can do it in Windows too as I'm a 100% linux guy!

There was this from Markus https://www.theqlforum.com/viewtopic.ph ... &start=730 regarding use of floppy drives on sQLux in Windoze, IIRC ql_freak confirmed it worked on his system at the time:

Re: Today I Received...
Post by desin » Sun Apr 06, 2025 11:33 am

Mini-Tower with built in 31/2" Teac Floppy Disk Drive
Windows 7
DEVICE=FLP1,\\.\a:,qdos-native
Linux
DEVICE=FLP1,/dev/fd0,qdos-native
hope it helps
Markus

[Traindriver69]

Hi all
With my set up

If I try and format a floppy disk in the ql it will sound like it is doing it but says format failed at the end.
I found a website which had a ql disk image which I have placed on a floppy via my greaseweazle using flash my fluffy floppy and if I search the directory on my ql it does see it.

But the ql will not autoboot the external floppy and I have tried lrun and load commands but nothing works to run the disc.
What am I doing wrong.

[aalea]

Has you check with other floppy drive? I have some that do not allow me to format disk, I think they are not correctly calibrated.

I wonder about the sticker of the ROM, I do not know that Cumaná need a new ROM, I was thinking this was only for microperiferical (Sinclair's ones)