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As I was trying to figure out how to get old disks found in my loft working on the current generation of emulators, I quickly discovered that there is fairly inconsistent support for the various media formats on modern PCs. QL Zip files are a bit mysterious, and the tools to handle .mdv and .win fil...

I downloaded both Rockfall files, I tried the WIN file on QEMulator running MInerva v1.98 Running the emulator at full speed, the game was a little unplayable, but the registered version of QEMulator, allows the emulator to be slowed down to normal QL speed. This made the game run OK and I was able...

Funny, I thought "man, this looks familiar" and sure enough I had included Rockfall in my QL-SD demo disc https://www.kilgus.net/ql/ql-sd/ . You can download it here either as a .win file or a directory - both should work on emulators that match the original QL memory mapped screens. QPC2...

Just as a follow up - the bug accessing win devices on uQLX under Windows Subsystem for Linux is specific to version 2018a - the older version without the TCP fix works just fine.

---- UPDATE ---- New release 26th January Hopefully this should fix the problems with Rockfall running fast on some emiulators. I've updated the files at the links below. --------------------------- Christmas gave me a little time to go through the loft and resurrect some old disks, including a Boul...

I've been experimenting with the MiSTer QL emulator built on the DE10 Nano FPGA board - it's a compact and fairly neat implementation of a bare bones QL - with some support for QL SD card images (though i can't get that part to work). It would be lovely if it got more support for disk images of var...

I've been experimenting with the MiSTer QL emulator built on the DE10 Nano FPGA board - it's a compact and fairly neat implementation of a bare bones QL - with some support for QL SD card images (though i can't get that part to work). It would be lovely if it got more support for disk images of vari...

Hmmm... I've just installed uQLX under windows 10 Unix susystem and for some reason every other time I try to access a win_ drive (backed by a .win file) I get 'Not Found'. So it'll work once, then fail, then work, then fail, then work. Doesn't seem to matter what the command is (dir, copy, lbytes, ...

Ha! You're right, it's Metacomco.... I have trouble remembering what I had for breakfast, so I'm flattered you remember me :) So far I have the code and the assembler for RockFall. It looks like it'll never work under SMSQ/E (direct access to screen memory), but it does work on the MiSTer hardware e...

Hi, I'm trying to resurrect a couple of old programs I wrote for the QL. One is a Boulder Dash clone that even at the time was fiendishly difficult and is now unplayable on emulators (RockFall). I've found the development disks - and amazingly, they work under QPCII on an old Windows XP machine with...