Floppy emulator (SD card)

[Jeff_HxC2001]

@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? ... t=10#p5407
You seems to believe that Lotharek is selling thousand of devices per month, but this not the case

Just to check i have asked to Lotharek if you got in touch with him. It seems that this is not the case. If you want to be a distributor, you should contact him to discuss all these points with the right guy (which i am not). And i don't think that a forum is the right place to discuss this kind of things...

Back to the thread subject.

[Jeff_HxC2001]

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/viewtopi ... 9660#p9660

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

Nice !

Just a thing to check : Since QL image is the same as PC img file, i am not sure that a loader is really needed here. Any comment about this ? (maybe that i miss something).

[XorA]

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 could be that I am missing something obvious here!

[Dave]

Just to check i have asked to Lotharek if you got in touch with him. It seems that this is not the case. If you want to be a distributor, you should contact him to discuss all these points with the right guy (which i am not). And i don't think that a forum is the right place to discuss this kind of things...

I had a 30 minute skype conversation with him, directly.

I don't need his or your permission to discuss my lack of business dealings with him. I'm looking for an arrangement that is profitable for both him and me - I just haven't been offered any deal yet (and maybe never) that provides me with any incentive to trade.

[Dave]

Also:

Please understand my exchange with Lotharek has been straightforward, positive and constructive. We just haven't reached a deal. I'm just telling people why, because they like to know. We haven't agreed on price. I told him I would get back to him in a month, so I have a couple of weeks left to think on it.

It would be good to see some movement from him, but he's under no obligation to meet me half way or any way if he doesn't want to. He's his boss and I'm mine. Our exchange was perfectly friendly.

I'm not knocking him, or his product.

I just don't pay retail for distribution.

[Jeff_HxC2001]

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 could be that I am missing something obvious here!

I will check this.

Since all loader try to "auto detect" the file format, the PC img loader may take a ql image as a pc one and vice-and-versa. I want just to avoid these kind of problem.

[IanJ]

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.

Hi all,

[Jeff_HxC2001]

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 browser but i have just build qltools for windows with the
hfe support :
http://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_driv ... ls_hfe.zip

[IanJ]

Jeff,

Am I missing something?

I am trying the new qltools and testing a few commands. I have an existing image QLA.HFE which has a few files in it already, so I thought I would try adding a file...........

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C:\Users\Ian\Desktop\qfe>qltools QLA.HFE -w DUNGEON.BAS
Checking QLA.HFE
File loader found : HXC_HFE (SD Card HxCFE HFE file Loader)
Loading QLA.HFE
file loader found!
Write HFE file QLA.HFE for the standalone emulator.
Floppy interface mode GENERIC_SHUGART_DD_FLOPPYMODE (Shugart Interface)
80 tracks written to the file
Stopping HxCFloppyEmulator...

I then copied the image to my SD card and then DIR FLP1_ but there's no new file added, it is same as before.

Am I missing something?

PS. I am running qltools and everything else out of the same folder for now (Win7). I am also using my own CFG that works fine with my QL.

Ian.

[XorA]

Ian Can you do :-

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qltools QLA.HFE -d -w DUNGEON.BAS -d

Which should give you a directory listing before and afterwards.