rwap wrote:I see IMD and Teledisk both use compression, so that may explain the 8K - I have also made a raw binary image of the disk (although cannot get IMD to convert this for some reason) - raw image appears at: http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/downloads/qlraw.zip
mhhh no, the imd file is bad : there are only one 512 FM sector per track.
Could you retry the dump with ImageDisk ?
Download this msdos floppy image. ImageDisk tool is copied in a ramdisk at startup. (use a true floppy disk to boot on this, and disconnect your harddisk to avoid problems.) http://hxc2001.free.fr/vrac/IMD_MSDOSDKBOOT.rar
i really need a valid imd file, because this file contains many importants details of the floppy disk format (sector id, gap...)
The problem I have is that I only have a USB floppy disk drive - IMD was reporting no interrupt from the disk and not even trying to read it.
I will try this version of ImageDisk - otherwise I can put the rawread / rawwrite programs on my website and you can make a QL floppy disk at your end to read with IMD?
rwap wrote:The problem I have is that I only have a USB floppy disk drive - IMD was reporting no interrupt from the disk and not even trying to read it.
I will try this version of ImageDisk - otherwise I can put the rawread / rawwrite programs on my website and you can make a QL floppy disk at your end to read with IMD?
Argghh i understand now.
ImageDisk will work only with a real 765 FDC.
When you use the rawwrite to make the floppy disk, the sinclair QL are able to read it back correctly?
Ah - I had not thought of that, so my apologies.
I have created a new qxl.win file at http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/downloads/qxl.zip - this matches the files on the raw disk that you have already downloaded
Ah - I had not thought of that, so my apologies.
I have created a new qxl.win file at http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/downloads/qxl.zip - this matches the files on the raw disk that you have already downloaded
With wich tool did you generate thhe qxl.win tool ?
I ask this because the raw and qxl.win are very differents :
raw file : QL5A format
qlx.win : QLWA format.
it seems that the the qlx.win was totally regenerate.
I appreciate that the QXL.win is a very different format - this is the file most commonly accessible to QL users - created and accessed within emulators on the PC.
If anything I would prefer to be able to import the data from the QXL.win format rather than having to use raw disk images (as the disk images do not exist), but I don't know if that is possible as this is more of a hard disk format.
I appreciate that the QXL.win is a very different format - this is the file most commonly accessible to QL users - created and accessed within emulators on the PC.
If anything I would prefer to be able to import the data from the QXL.win format rather than having to use raw disk images (as the disk images do not exist), but I don't know if that is possible as this is more of a hard disk format.
Rich
So , the program must :
-> Extract files from the QXL.win (this means be able to read this filesystem)
-> Create an empty QL5A floppy image
-> Add files and subfolders to this image.
This is lot of work! Are there some libs doing a part of this ?
If you can create the part of the program which will create a QL5A image and open the QXL.WIN for reading/conversion, I would be happy to get involved writing the code to transfer the files and directories across (provided you are happy to share the source code with me and maybe another in the QL community).
If you can create the part of the program which will create a QL5A image and open the QXL.WIN for reading/conversion, I would be happy to get involved writing the code to transfer the files and directories across (provided you are happy to share the source code with me and maybe another in the QL community).
Rich
One question : Which tools create these "qxl.win" files ?
Jeff, I was wondering if you had made any progress on this, or whether you would share the sources, so we can amend the software to import programs from qxl.win files.
