sQLux v1.0 (The Xmas Turkey)

[XorA]

Done...

Looking good.

I cant currently distribute an apple binary, but Im too cheap to pay for developer certificate

[mk79]

Btw, Q-emuLator only uses headers for files needing it (e.g. executables)

Same with QPC. I even remove the header again if the type is changed to 0.

and it also does some escaping of the file name to avoid forbidden names (e.g. CON on Windows) and characters. If anybody is interested, I can share the escaping algorithm.

I didn't know you do that, too.

QPC appends an underscore, so "con" becomes "con_". Same is true for "prn", "aux", "nul", "com1".."com9", "lpt1".."lpt9".

For filenames ending with a space the space will be exchanged with ANSI character 160. Filenames ending with a dot are exchanged with ANSI character 183. Yes, these were implemented on actual requests from a customer a long time (>15 years) ago because he actually used weird filenames like these in his company's software.

[M68008]

For filenames ending with a space the space will be exchanged with ANSI character 160. Filenames ending with a dot are exchanged with ANSI character 183. Yes, these were implemented on actual requests from a customer a long time (>15 years) ago because he actually used weird filenames like these in his company's software.

Another case is files with empty names, sometimes used by QL programs as weak copy protection. In Q-emuLator, they appear in host directories as '"-noname-".

[XorA]

On that NOTE reading Q-Emulator headers now works (well as far as Ive tested it), could still be some corner cases. Next step is to replace the .-UQLX- files with Q-Emulator headers all round!

Great to hear! IMO having more emulators use the same native format will simplify the life of users.

Btw, Q-emuLator only uses headers for files needing it (e.g. executables) and it also does some escaping of the file name to avoid forbidden names (e.g. CON on Windows) and characters. If anybody is interested, I can share the escaping algorithm.

I would be interested in seeing them as obviously sQLux is new to windows foibles. But it does attempt to only use header of files with the type set. Although Marcel has pointed out a corner case I had not considered so will need to implement.

[M68008]

I would be interested in seeing them as obviously sQLux is new to windows foibles. But it does attempt to only use header of files with the type set. Although Marcel has pointed out a corner case I had not considered so will need to implement.

Hi XorA,

Windows forbids a number of characters in file names: <>|":/\?*

You should also avoid device names. I escape CON PRN AUX NUL COM1-9 LPT1-9

The escaping mechanism in Q-emuLator may look bizarre, but it has worked fine and is not visible from inside the emulator:
- Files with no name are saved as: -noname-
- Files with escaped characters start with -noascii-
-noascii- is followed by a number of parts separated by spaces; each part can either be the hex code for a character or ! followed by a run of unescaped characters
I also escape characters < 32.

Examples:

Code: Select all

tk2_bin          ->  tk2_bin
<empty name>     ->  -noname-
CON              ->  -noascii-!CON
CONSOLE          ->  CONSOLE
one<newline>two  ->  -noascii-!one A!two   (the A in the middle is the newline character)
//               ->  -noascii-2F 2F
<null character> ->  -noascii-0

[mk79]

Windows forbids a number of characters in file names: <>|":/\?*

Ah right, I forgot about them. I do substitutions for those, too, but differently: ">" translates for example into Unicode symbol U+203A "Single Right-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark" which looks exactly like ">" but works in filenames My goal was for the names to be visually as close to the original as possible.

Cheers, Marcel

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi,

How do I get sQLux to execute a QDOS executable file unzipped with qemi-unzip.

I made a DEVICE as qdos-like but the rxecutable file teturns a bad parameter when loaded with EX or EW

[XorA]

Hi,

How do I get sQLux to execute a QDOS executable file unzipped with qemi-unzip.

I made a DEVICE as qdos-like but the rxecutable file teturns a bad parameter when loaded with EX or EW

It should just work with the latest in git, but its still in development so there might be some bugs!

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi

No problems, I just not get it to work.

I generally uncompress archive files to a QDOS environment, which preserves the executable header eithout messing about wilth the QDOS file header.

[XorA]

Hi

No problems, I just not get it to work.

I generally uncompress archive files to a QDOS environment, which preserves the executable header eithout messing about wilth the QDOS file header.

Using your own test I have tried.

./x86_64/qem-unzip -d~/test "~/Downloads/flightdeck.zip"

with this sqlux.ini

# Example configuration

SYSROM = MIN198.rom
ROMIM = TK232.rom
RAMTOP = 4096
PRINT = lpr
CPU_HOG = 0
FAST_STARTUP = 1
DEVICE = FLP1,~/test/,qdos-like
WIN_SIZE = 2x
SPEED = 1.0

Will load the flight_obj exe, which then fails with Bad Name, but thats not an issue with the filesystem as far as I can see!