NormanDunbar wrote:Ok, you win, your change was better than mine.

I spend my career educating people that truncate/ftruncate can extend a file too.

Ive seen some insane scripts written in Linux community by people who don't know that!

Thanks for the answer.

uQLx's support for 16 * 8 directory devices is a tad optimistic then

I had a quick look at the source yesterday anyway. Looks like there's a bug somewhere! The function which writes out the first 36 sectors for a new image, doesn't do anything when you up the number of sectors to be written to the correct number. Very strange. Instead of writing the image, it simply...

Is there a maximum number of disk devices allowed for QDOS/Minerva.

I was sent some tests for uQLx/sQLux and it looks like after approx 16 disk devices are opened you run out of channels. Get a -6 error on any further.

I have found a bit more time to pull together the majority of my QL software collection (currently running at 263 items). The current list is attached - some of those may of course be freeware and I missed it. There is about 50-60KG in weight with all of the manuals etc. (and I still have a fair am...

The reason for the failure of the Q-Jump FORMAT command on DSDD disks has been discovered. This is what the developer of FF, Keir Fraser, has to say: It looks like format writes extra sectors to track 0 side 1. These will not fit and will overwrite the normal sectors. It will then try to read norma...

Thread resurrection, but I guess there will not be an official release of uQLx with this in before my beard reaches my knees. One caveat: the new QL-SD drivers don't support the BDI format anymore, it is all QLWA now. The BDI interface has nothing to do with the filesystem used inside the image. It...

Thread resurrection, but I guess there will not be an official release of uQLx with this in before my beard reaches my knees. One caveat: the new QL-SD drivers don't support the BDI format anymore, it is all QLWA now. Yes but sneakilly I can use the same support for qubide cards too :-D My QL-SD al...

Actually dont worry about it, it turned out incredibly simple to implement.



I just need to tidy up the final few bits and add config file options.

I should have eliminated the last remaining bugs today, so UQLX is now the second QL emulator, after Qemulator, which can handle QL-SD filesystem images. I have no idea when Richard will release it. If someone already needs the feature, please feel free to contact me by personal email. The trick is...