Sinclair QL

[XorA]

Hi, I have written a loader for the Sinclair QL .img files produced by Q-Emulator and the qltools packages.

I have tested the resultant DD and HD hfe files both read and write on my actual QL and they
seem to be functional.

This was from information in the other QL thread here with RWAP!

[Jeff]

Thanks will integrate this ! The format look likes very similar to the PC. i am missing something ?

[XorA]

I don't know much about how floppy disks work, but I get the impression the physical format on disk is the same as a PC. Just the filesystem is different.

It may be you can improve on some of the magic numbers that I did not really understand.

[Jeff]

I don't know much about how floppy disks work, but I get the impression the physical format on disk is the same as a PC. Just the filesystem is different.

It may be you can improve on some of the magic numbers that I did not really understand.

almost the same : the first sector id on ql is 0.

[XorA]

I have learned some things doing the qltools integration, I shall update this loader when I have a chance!

[XorA]

And the promised upgrade, this one uses the disk header info to detect the size of the disk rather than guessing from file size.

I also implemented writing as this works well with the qltools mod.

libhxcfe API is awesome

Graeme