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I tend not to use vDrive's built-in utilities for formatting or bank mapping. vDrive is nicely set up with a text-based config file where you can do all the drive management under Windows. All you need is one good formatted MDV file and you can duplicate it and add it to the bank. Likely, the MDV fi...

- line 150: device should end with an underscore Oops, typo. - add a speed variable and add line 545 Pause speed (otherwise it is too fast to run in QPC or even on GC/SGC) GC sholdn't be a problem as that's what I'm sort of running it on (i.e. 4x). Don't these have a slowdown mechansim? - line 1390...

Ok, here is the final version. It has a bunch of random things happening. You have Christmas lights, you have window lights, and you have window shades. Also, the Grinch doesn't always launch all bombs. I also got rid of the weird mouth on the Grinch since it looked bad. When running it, it will ask...

Made some progress. Can you see the blinking Christmas lights?

Small GIF.

So a few more things to tinker with...maybe a shade closing, a room light going on or off inside a building. Then I'll include the zip file with the BASIC and all the sprites.

[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