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[Moving post from "New Microdrive Internal Replacement" to here to avoid clogging thread...so some of this context is found in that original thread.] So I understand correctly, QL-SD doesn't qualify to what Peter was talking about because it creates WIN storage not MDV? I always thought i...

HI, I tried to get the source code to PETSCII Robots, to port it to the QL, but last year, there all sorts of reasons why they would not let me have it. If you can give me a link to the source code, I will try and port it to the QL. Here it is. I would think the Amiga version would be closest, but ...

So I cleaned up the Grinch animation a bit and added some features back in from the original Grinch picture. Someone noted my sleigh only had one support...but that was in the original picture, so I left it that way. I'm working on a paper deadline for next Monday so this has been a great way to avo...

RWAP wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2023 8:19 am VROOM will work from disk without copy protection but yes, is one game that will not work with Minerva.

Email me and I can sed an MDV image for use with vDrive

Hi Rich, I'll send you an email...thanks!

dex wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2023 7:22 am VROOM is incompatible with Minerva ROM.
Probably the only QL game with this incompatibility.

What ROM do You have?

JSU

Btw, I have a copy of Vroom that I bought for pretty cheap at RWAP when I was getting a keyboard membrane. I haven't been able to get it to run successfully. On my BBQL it starts the game but freezes. I tried to run it on Q-Emulator via the floppy drive, and no success. Was Vroom write-protected? Co...

Using Andrews code I created the following Christmas card for 2023. It's not complete as I want to add some blinking lights and have lights in windows go on/off, maybe have the Grinch drop a random amount of bombs, not all four each time. Once I finish it I'll include a zip file with the BASIC code....

...and as Peter alluded to, emulators are really nothing more than fancy interpreters. I've written both...not only the ZXSimulator which is a ROM emulator (i.e. that is really an interpreter that mimics the interpreter of the original ZX81) but also true processor-based emulators. They all take the...

Well, the sampled Microdrive sound used can be found in the source code: https://github.com/stephen-usher/vDrive-Sound-Board/blob/main/ATTiny85/mdvsnd-v1.ino I need to implement your solution. I bought the same thing that Noel did and its scraping microdrive sound was pretty bad so I uninstalled it...

Exactly what many solutions do using FPGAs. Interpret what it should do since... you have not the original logic schema (technology, context (voltages, etc)) or somebody try to reproduce as close as possible the "real/original" behavior. POVs of view, if for you FPGAs is same than origina...