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Hi,

After a little wrestle with the advent1.zip file which was a copy of the RWAP Adaventure Disk #1, I have created MDV images for use with Q-Emulator.

The attached ZIP file: Advent1_MDV.zip

Contains MDV images of the ADVENT1.ZIP file, just uncompress the zip file to a directory or folder. and point the Q-emulator MDV slot to the MDV image and restart the emulation.

I have tested this on JS, Minerva Roms on Unregistered and Registerd versions of Q-emulator.

This is part of a Games SD Card Project for the Q68.

By the way, the version of Starplod in the archive file advent1.zip does not work, there is another version of Starplod on the QL Homepage that does work, this has bee updated in the attached zip file.

thanks.

any chance you could do another one? (last one, i promise)

http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/games/adventures/advent93a.zip

People realise there is actually a tool for automating this?

https://github.com/mist-devel/mist-bina ... s/ql/tools

ok, cool. thanks. just found a compiled version of this but it doesnt work.

not exactly sure what this error means :

Assertion failed: sizeof(file_t) == 64, file mdvtool.c, line 789

i think theres something wrong with the compiled executable

ed77 wrote:ok, cool. just found a compiled version of this. thanks


the zip file is too big to convert directly

not exactly sure what this error means :


Assertion failed: sizeof(file_t) == 64, file mdvtool.c, line 789

Means the compiler used did not pack the structure in the manner needed so its size is wrong.

This is the unfortunate thing about C not supporting packed structs, we have only been moaning about it for almost 30 years

ed77 wrote:thanks.

any chance you could do another one? (last one, i promise)

http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/games/adventures/advent93a.zip

The files on adent93a.zip is actually "Vogage of the Beano". Which is too big to fit into a MDV image.

I have never got the MIST MDVTOOL to work, though there someone on the forum who did some work.

Derek_Stewart wrote:

ed77 wrote:thanks.

any chance you could do another one? (last one, i promise)

http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/games/adventures/advent93a.zip

The files on adent93a.zip is actually "Vogage of the Beano". Which is too big to fit into a MDV image.

I have never got the MIST MDVTOOL to work, though there someone on the forum who did some work.

Pretty sure I did get it to work a few years back. But would have got lucky with struct packing. I might rewrite it in a language tha t does support packing natively.

XorA wrote:

Derek_Stewart wrote:

ed77 wrote:thanks.

any chance you could do another one? (last one, i promise)

http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/games/adventures/advent93a.zip

The files on adent93a.zip is actually "Vogage of the Beano". Which is too big to fit into a MDV image.

I have never got the MIST MDVTOOL to work, though there someone on the forum who did some work.

Pretty sure I did get it to work a few years back. But would have got lucky with struct packing. I might rewrite it in a language tha t does support packing natively.

cool thanks

Ive just sent a pull request to update mdvtool to newer zip API.

So here is a fixed version of mdvtool compiled for windows (64bit)