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Derek_Stewart wrote: I downloaded the new Windows emulator which ran okay on Linux under Wine...

That's cheered me up

Less than 1.5 hours (I missed the end time as I was washing up)

mk79 wrote:Master of my veeeery small domain Cool! How long do you estimate does the whole test take on your M1?

I’ll have to re-run it as obviously the failing tests take much longer than passing ones with all the printing.

But even then it was only 3-4 hours or so.

mk79 wrote:Huh? How so?

I forgot (because I havent used win32 API for years), that when you open a file you must use O_BINARY to get normal behaviour, otherwise its puts a LF after every CR in the file. Which doesnt do binary files much good!

And thanks to the guidance of Marcel the master.

It no longer eats files, I forgot about windows and its bloomin CR/LF mangling in binary files!

Derek, the parted tool in modern linux seems to support atari partition tables. So it should be possible to knock something together. Where would parted run? I could imagine you mean attaching an IDE devide to an Intel PC and do the partitioning there. In that case, endianess could become a problem...

And reading my own post noticed the mistake (using the intermediate result for zero not the final) w8 d, r; uw16 nbcd_lo, nbcd_hi, nbcd_res; int nbcd_carry; d = ModifyAtEA_b((code >> 3) & 7, code & 7); nbcd_lo = -(d & 0xF) - (xflag ? 1 : 0); nbcd_hi = -(d & 0xF0); if (nbcd_lo > 9) { ...

Thanks for the hint about UAE, thats a lot more readable than Musashi I was trying to crib from. w8 d, r; w8 d2, r2; uw16 nbcd_lo, nbcd_hi, nbcd_res; int nbcd_carry; d = ModifyAtEA_b((code >> 3) & 7, code & 7); nbcd_lo = - (d & 0xF) - (xflag ? 1 : 0); nbcd_hi = - (d & 0xF0); if (nbcd...