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Re: sQLux v1.0 (The Xmas Turkey)
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2022 10:01 pm
by Derek_Stewart
XorA wrote:Derek_Stewart wrote:Hi,
I can get the QL-SD Bdi file to opened in sQLux 1.02
I entered the device command in the config fille as:
DEVICE = BDI1,~/sqlux/bdi.bin
The emulator boots up but can find BDI1_
Any clues on accessing BDI files?
You need to use the BDI device and load the driver.
BDI1=some-file.bdi
Then load the driver in the QL-SD distribution for emulators.
OK, I loaded the BDI RAM driver, which could not find the drive.
Re: sQLux v1.0 (The Xmas Turkey)
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2022 10:05 pm
by QLvsJAGUAR
swensont wrote:I have done what might be considered a more user-friendly sQLux User Guide with pictures. I have also created a QLX.win file to go with sQLux to get someone started. It comes with zip, Xchange, the Pointer Environment, and some other utilities. It will get someone new to the QL up and running. Both are on my website:
Great job Tim! I like your User Guides (SMSQmulator, uQLx and now sQLux)!
The WIN file (sqlux.win) is handy and small (2MB), but may not really attract people new to the QL. I think QL/E's WIN file (QLE.WIN) offers much more and presents the QL with a Desktop better understandable for people who never used a QL. Sure, QL/E is a bit more complex. But it already comes with sQLux preconfigured (sqlux.ini) to run.
Re: sQLux v1.0 (The Xmas Turkey)
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2022 10:08 pm
by XorA
Derek_Stewart wrote:XorA wrote:Derek_Stewart wrote:Hi,
I can get the QL-SD Bdi file to opened in sQLux 1.02
I entered the device command in the config fille as:
DEVICE = BDI1,~/sqlux/bdi.bin
The emulator boots up but can find BDI1_
Any clues on accessing BDI files?
You need to use the BDI device and load the driver.
BDI1=some-file.bdi
Then load the driver in the QL-SD distribution for emulators.
OK, I loaded the BDI RAM driver, which could not find the drive.
Works fine with the files supplied with QL-SD here.
then in sqlux
LRESPR MDV2_BDI_BIN
dir sdc1_
Re: sQLux v1.0 (The Xmas Turkey)
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2022 10:10 pm
by QLvsJAGUAR
Speaking of QL/E, today I've experienced that its QTop-Desk program (file TDESK) fails to start. This is weird because TDESK is known to run on all QL compatible systems.
First impression is that the SuperBASIC command BAUD does not work as expected. It just gives "bad parameter". Graeme, ?
Good nite,
Urs
Re: sQLux v1.0 (The Xmas Turkey)
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2022 10:20 pm
by XorA
QLvsJAGUAR wrote:Speaking of QL/E, today I've experienced that its QTop-Desk program (file TDESK) fails to start. This is weird because TDESK is known to run on all QL compatible systems.
First impression is that the SuperBASIC command BAUD does not work as expected. It just gives "bad parameter". Graeme, ?
Good nite,
Urs
What is TDESK?
Re: sQLux v1.0 (The Xmas Turkey)
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 11:54 am
by XorA
XorA wrote:QLvsJAGUAR wrote:Speaking of QL/E, today I've experienced that its QTop-Desk program (file TDESK) fails to start. This is weird because TDESK is known to run on all QL compatible systems.
First impression is that the SuperBASIC command BAUD does not work as expected. It just gives "bad parameter". Graeme, ?
Good nite,
Urs
What is TDESK?
Would bad param be -15 by any chance?
Re: sQLux v1.0 (The Xmas Turkey)
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:38 pm
by tofro
QLvsJAGUAR wrote:
First impression is that the SuperBASIC command BAUD does not work as expected. It just gives "bad parameter".
Urs
That's interesting: BAUD 9600 (or other reasonable baud rates) works fine here on MacOS. Anything non-reasonable (like BAUD 256000, or basically everything above 19200) gives "overflow" (that one looks fowl to me, though, because it should say "Bad parameter").
Re: sQLux v1.0 (The Xmas Turkey)
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:41 pm
by tofro
XorA wrote:
Would bad param be -15 by any chance?
Yep.
Re: sQLux v1.0 (The Xmas Turkey)
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:43 pm
by XorA
tofro wrote:XorA wrote:
Would bad param be -15 by any chance?
Yep.
uQLx codebase returns that when there are no serial ports, on Windows port you can never have any serial ports. On linux you probably need to configure them.
But if TDESK is exiting due to this it is a bug in TDESK and not the emulator!
Re: sQLux v1.0 (The Xmas Turkey)
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 7:10 am
by QLvsJAGUAR
XorA wrote:What is TDESK?
You got me!
Well, I should update the QL wiki
https://qlwiki.theqlforum.com/doku.php?i ... p&s[]=qtop one time.
TDESK is the executable binary file of the program QTop-Desk which forms the core of the QTop package. It's TURBO compiled SuperBASIC. QTop if one o 6 Desktop systems available under QL/E.