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I believe it fails because of the dot in win1_littlsam.mdv. QL doesn't like dots in filename and gives a NOT FOUND error message. QPC2 is automatically changing the dot to underscore and that is why it works. Not quite, renaming tge MDV fille to "LITTLESAM_MDV" and usint the MDI command: ...

Hi, On my QL Tetroid Trump Card with CF interface, Minvera v1.98, with Toolkit 2 enabled, I tried to convert the "Littlsam.mdv" file to MDI format, using the CONVERT2_MDI command. CONVERT2_MDI "win1_littlsam.mdv" TO "win1_littlesam_mdi" the command fails and gives a NO...

And it only worked!

Here's the MDI ROM

I decided to see if I could run the game from the MDI driver in Qemulator.
So I set Qemulator to 128K mode, and used the ROM version of the MDI driver.

OK , I have had a look at the MDIConvert SuperBASIC program. It does fail with a 'Unexpected data in header" error. This was due to the program not knowing about Qemulator MDUMP2 image files. I have done a fix in MDIConvert3_bas MDIConvert3.zip I then ran the program in Qemulator (JS ROM) and c...

i download the mdv image from here ... try to con vert to mdi... the converter say... no rigth length on real ql i dont use emulators I have just downloaded the two versions of the game, and I will have a look at them. Just to be clear. Are you using the MDI driver to try to do the conversion, or a...

i try olso to convert mdv 2 mdi with mdi2mdv software ql say: not the length of an mdv.... aborted+ Are you trying to do this in the MDI driver? I don't remember putting in a "not the length of an mdv... aborted" message. (Although it was quite a while ago) Can you post the image file you...

QL Characters by Philip Smith, Sinclair User March 1985 "To return the characters use POKE_L 167722,41304." I have not tried to find out what the POKE_L 167722,41304 does. But it's way past the system variables, and probably in the common heap. I would guess that it's trying to directly a...

Instead of messing about with POKE's. You might want to look at Toolkit 2. I has a CHAR_USE command for redefining fonts for particular channels. See section 14 of the Toolkit 2 manual. A problem you will probably find is that two UDG's don't join up at the edges, and leaves a gap. There is a CHAR_I...

I've sent a few emails to Quanta and received no replies. The last, back in March, was to ask to switch to the free PDF membership.

I think my next membership renewal is due next month, So I will see what happens then.