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The New QL-SD driver uses .WIN files that are the same format as QPC uses, and that they must be named QXL.WIN and be the only file on a fromatted FAT32 SDHC card? There can be a few QXL.WIN files on the driver, but they must be in the first x directory entries (with x being 8 or 16 or whatever). T...

Which raises the question: what would it take to have QubIDE be able to use the same .WIN files as QL-SD and everything else? Somebody with a lot of knowledge and a lot of time at his hands ;) Hey, Wolfgang has retired and got a QL-VGA from me for his original QL, so he definitely has one, maybe if...

Try my fixed version from here viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2696&start=10#p37623

Ummm, no. "Both" in the sense of "byte-swapped" or not. As far as I'm aware this is a QPC-only feature. Nope, I implemented byte swapping in sQLux years ago. I am a little confused, the QUBide files from my QL-SD Interface, are read/write on Q68 using the QUB device, the BDI dri...

Oh, I remember what happened, the BDI version of the QL-SD driver would not read any of the test QUBIDE files I had so i parked the code in a branch to investigate later. And later still has not occurred (and branch is on a machine that is no more). IIRC the BDI driver checks some bit in the master...

It’s causing chaos at work and we order by the thousands. So hobbyist is really going to have trouble. Yeah, I'm on the lookout for alternatives but fear that whatever I choose (based on current price and Mouser availability) will be sold out once I'm finished. It's a pity, the Spartan 6 was a powe...

As a matter of interest, are there any low cost FPGAs containing significant amount of SRAM? Generally no (even expensive chips have maybe 300kb, generally it's more like <64kb). But with the current chip crisis you can already say "no" to the question "are there any low cost FPGAs&q...

If you have different files you need different _link files. Alternatively one could use the substitution feature to switch between different configurations in the same link file, but so far that was usually used to switch between different languages. Currently I cannot say which way is better, it mi...

SD images can also are byteswapped sometimes, e.g. if SD-IDE converters are used with native hardware. Which is not unlikely for some Qubide or even Q40/Q60 setups. Ah ok. Unlikely setup on a PC, but I understand. Well, even better that QPC can do both ;-) ... as well as sQLux, Q68 Ummm, no. "...