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I have a play with the HxC software today and wrote a loader for QL .img files.

I have posted it on HxC forums here :-

http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/viewtopi ... =19&t=1380

G

Great - what's a tgz file? Could you upload it here as a zip file?

tgz is tar.gz you can tell Im a Unix guy

OK - it would be good to add QL mode as native to the HxC Software.

A quick look suggests this is only for DD disks - it could do with two versions - one for DD and one for HD.

I did try getting ED disk images to work - but unfortunately, couldn't - I think the problem was we didn't know how the QL detects an ED disk....

Nope its for HD disks as well.

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{
floppydisk->floppySectorPerTrack=18;
floppydisk->floppyBitRate=DEFAULT_HD_BITRATE;
}

G

Great - missed those lines...

What we need is some form of explorer too - so that you can switch between disk images from within the QL itself, rather than using the front display buttons....

RWAP wrote:Great - missed those lines...

What we need is some form of explorer too - so that you can switch between disk images from within the QL itself, rather than using the front display buttons....

Bearing in mind that HxC just emulates the hardware of a floppy disk drive I'm not really sure that is possible Especially considering the closed source nature of the HxC microcontroller's code.

Cheers.

Phill.

prime wrote:

RWAP wrote:Great - missed those lines...

What we need is some form of explorer too - so that you can switch between disk images from within the QL itself, rather than using the front display buttons....

Bearing in mind that HxC just emulates the hardware of a floppy disk drive I'm not really sure that is possible Especially considering the closed source nature of the HxC microcontroller's code.

Cheers.

Phill.

It is certainly possible, it exists already for the Amstrad CPC and Amiga. You can access the FAT filesystem directly, and send special commands to switch images. I don't know enough about the QL yet, but the source is available for the CPC explorer if someone wants to have a go.

Graeme

It is definitely possible - The protocol to access arbitrary blocks on the SD Card is very well documented (it's mainly escaped into by positioning the "head" of the virtual floppy to a nonexistent track 255).

I'd rather have something like that one:
http://hxcmount.atomas.com

Which basically evaluates to a hard disk driver.....

Regards,
Tobias

If someone's willing to write the uC code, I'm happy to make our own brand of these. They sell well, and they have rather inflated prices for what they are: whoever writes the code would make a good income from their cut.