Have you tried the FLP_START command Unfortunately this command does not produce any effect. It is a Fujitsu M2553K drive (1,2MB) and it can read/write/format also 720K Qdos and DOS disks when connected to PC. Here below the specs and pictures (the 4 flying wires you see near the flat cable connect...

I'm making some tests with a Fujitsu 5.25" floppy drive. It works with Windows XP, and also with Qemulator. It is possible to format, read and write 720K Qdos disks without any problem. An oddity: if jumpered as DS0, it becomes undetectable both in WinXP and QL; anyway, when jumpered as DS1 it ...

dilwyn wrote: "shell" for QDOS

The typical meal for QL users in quarantine:

guibrush wrote:Now, all my mouses are working !

Great!!
So, it would be nice if you add your mouses info and/or pictures to the "compatible mice list" topic, if you can

or this one ? https://imgur.com/BOzpR7V This second one, which is related to SER2. If I remember well, you should really connect the mouse to SER2. The mouse works quite well, considering its age and the normal issues due to the dust on the rubber ball. I utilize the latest Sermouse version (sorry ...

That's easy for you to say but very difficult to actually do. Well, it's not so easy to say actually. I'm (at least partially) aware of the very hard work needed, and I respect and admire whoever does it. I was only meaning that the utility of supporting old OSs exists (even if it's not always poss...

I newer tought that having a mouse working on a QL could be so challenging. If this may help, there is a topic about Sermouse compatible mice. There is a link and some photos. The list is rather short for the moment, but I hope it will increase. https://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=319...

Thank you for sharing your interesting concept. I had a similar idea some time ago, but then I abandoned it because RECOL is really slow on real hardware, even with Supergoldcard.
Has anyone tried with other machines (Aurora, Q68...)? Does the program run smoothly?

mk79 wrote: I'm not even sure whether I should continue to support XP...

Concerning retro computing, I think it is also important to support OSs capable of running on slow machines and handling old hardware. Modern PCs lack floppy drives, parallel / serial ports and so on.