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XorA wrote:

Jeff_HxC2001 wrote: EDIT : Is the Trumb Card really able to support HD disk with a WD1770 FDC ?

I had not noticed that in the spec, oops, that could be why my images did not work for Ian.

Anyway attached is the result of my formatting Jeffs .HFE on my SGC.

G

Perfect formatting.
Definitely a PC compatible disk layout...

IanJ wrote:Hi all,

Here's my QL with the emulator neatly cabled up & bolted down onto the Trump card.
Working HFE & CFG attached.



Whilst the LCD version is more functional it's a bit heath-robinson in terms of build quality I think. The lcd just hangs there!

So maybe that you should get the Rev F...

http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=120
http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=121
http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=122

http://hxc2001.com/showroom/

Hi all,

Now, remembering I'm a newbie.......whats the easiest way to add files to the image on a PC. I was hoping the HxCFloppyEmulator software could 'browse' the image file and have the ability to add files.....but can't quite see how it can do this.

I suppose using Qemulator would work but just thought using a simple windows app to mount the image would be easier.

Ian.

http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/files/index.html scroll to the bottom. I use cmdline qltools on linux, but I guess the GUI is what you want.

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. Let's see.

Dave wrote: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. Let's see.

What is your company ?

XorA wrote:http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/files/index.html scroll to the bottom. I use cmdline qltools on linux, but I guess the GUI is what you want.

I couldn't see anything there by way of a Windows app.

So, I found a HFE file browser here - http://www.lotharek.pl/?s=4
However, whilst it can open the demo HFE files it supplies, it just doesn't do much if I point it towards my own HFE/CFG files.

Win7(64bit)

Ian.

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

qltools cmdline can put files in/out and list files in a .img file, you can convert from HFE back to img file. And img to HFE.

HxC tools have no specific knowledge of QL filesystem, I think they are limited to msdos and amiga formats.

G

XorA wrote: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_driv ... fd_hxc.zip

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.

Jeff_HxC2001 wrote:

XorA wrote: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_driv ... fd_hxc.zip

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.

I tried VFD and whilst I can open the test HFE files it comes with perfectly, it errors when I try to open my QL DD one.

It would be great if this prog was adapted to support QL DD HFE's.

Ian.