Some questions on the modern QL add ons

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bwinkel67
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Re: Some questions on the modern QL add ons

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Derek_Stewart wrote: But the MDI format does not support the vDriveQL MDV image format, you will have convert the vDriveQL images with the MDI command CONVERT2_MDI to convert the vDriveQL image to MDI image useable on the Q68.
Oh, two different MDV image formats, didn't know that.


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Re: Some questions on the modern QL add ons

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Hi,

Since the Q68 does not have a MDV device driver, my solution was to use MDI, which is not compatible with the VDriveQL MDV format.

There are 2 options, use MDI: CONVERT2_MDI or vDriveQL: LD commands, which convert to the native format.

Pity the MDV format was not like the FLP image format as, FDI FLP images are readable on Qemulator, QOC2, SMSQmulator, but not vDriveQL.... Which is reasonable as the vDrive is emualting a Microdrive not a Floppy Disk drive.

Could the MDI format be made compatible with the vDrive format, I wonder...


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Re: Some questions on the modern QL add ons

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bwinkel67 wrote:
Derek_Stewart wrote: But the MDI format does not support the vDriveQL MDV image format, you will have convert the vDriveQL images with the MDI command CONVERT2_MDI to convert the vDriveQL image to MDI image useable on the Q68.
Oh, two different MDV image formats, didn't know that.
There are at least three. Qlay, Qemulator dump images, and my MDI


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