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No need to speculate about an OS (Stella) that probably doesn't exist. No matter, what others tell us.

Tinyfpga wrote:Curiously, I have somehow created an SMSQE environment where almost no QL programs will
run properly or run at all.

Very courious...I run them all, except some of the CALL programs. As long as they are well programmed to EX, they run!

Come on...do you have the Stella code? Give it to us.

Peter wrote:For example if someone says: I want the Raspi to access microdrives

Would be interesting to see, how someone would realise it.

To be honest: I have never got problems with Microdrives (just two or three times). For me, they were always very good and reliable. And...thanks TT for RAMPRT.

An early form of SMS2 was producedto be installed from floppy. This was probably the version that TT sent to Ralf. That could be possible. It was an Atari disk, which produces(!!) an SMS2 startup disk. It was not the SMS2 startup disk itself, which he has sent to me. There is a version of xchange t...

Derek_Stewart wrote:Will Stella run Quill?

Possibly. But without a way to execute it, it will certainly be difficult.

ppe wrote:this will not work if I compile it since QLIb does not support PARSTR$ or PARNAM$

As TT has written in the TK2 manual. You should read it!

Stella doesn't exist. Exactly my point of view. I only believe it when I see the code, in whatever form. When TT sent me the SMS2 disk, which created a bootable system disk for the Atari ST, he immediately wrote that he couldn't take care of SMS2 any further because he had no time and no resources....

dilwyn wrote:I remember that Ralf picked up a few words of Welsh quite easily when he visited Wales some years ago (Hi Ralf).

Mae'n rhaid mai dyma'r geiriau "Pa mor sbeislyd ydych chi ei eisiau?"

Tinyfpga wrote:I suppose the E in SMSQE refers to the Enhanced drivers (DV3) developed for SMS2.

No, the "E" means, that the Extended Environment (Pointer I/F, Window Manager and Hotkey System 2) was built into it. This happens first with the Level E drivers for the range of Atari ST hardware emulators.

dilwyn wrote:I wonder if that would work with a QIMI interface, since I think (not 100% sure) that QIMI mice are Atari mice?

If the USB mouse is correctly converted into an Atari mouse port, it should work. It makes an Atari mouse compatible output, that is what QIMI awaits.