From QCDEZE to QCDEZE 2
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:47 am
Some time ago, I tried amending QCDeze program from Duncan to make it working with QubATA driver for exploring Data CDs.
After some investigations, I wanted to enhance functionalities and to have a program working on various QL platforms.
So, I decided to write my own program but conserving graphical concepts of QCDeze and nice icons.
This is now achieved and I called it for now simply QCDeze2.
The new QCDEZE2 is a multipurpose devices browser for QL platforms and compatibles. It can browse :
- foreign physical devices (CDROMs, Hard disks/Memory Cards - ATA/ATAPI)
- binary device images (e.g. .iso .img)
- containers (QXL.win) and QUB/BDI
CDROM and DATA CD images should be ISO 9660 format compliant
Hard disks and disk binary images could be multipartitioned QWA/QLWA from SMSQ/E or QLW1 from QubIDE format.
Direct access read is done with QubATA, SMSQ/E WIN drivers and TG ATAPI/CDROM Things.
Some images and containers may be enclosed inside a parent image, e.g. a QXL.WIN in parent.ISO in grandparent.ISO in DOS2_distrib.ISO
As the original QCDEZE, all files shown by the software, regardless of media beeing read, can be executed, viewed or copied to any QL native drive present on the system.
I made my best effort to keep this software as "slim and fast" as possible to allow runing on almost all QL platforms with a mimimum of resources :
Prerequisites are simply TK2, PE and ~300KB of free memory.
FileInfo2 and QMenu are usefull but not mandatory.
Behaviour of PE is made very close to QPTR/QPAC2 standard.
This software should run indifferently under QDOS (may be any ROM) with PE or SMSQ/E systems.
This software was tested on following systems :
- Original standard QL with Tetroid (768KB)-CF card and JS ROM
- Original standard QL with QubIde clone (512KB)-CF to SD adapter
and JS ROM
- AURORA+SGC+QubIDE Minerva ROM, QDOS and SMSQ/E with QubATA
driver
- AURORA+SGC+QubIDE Minerva, SMSQ/E with TG ATAPI/CDROM Things
- Q40 SMSQ/E 3.17/3.31 with TG ATAPI/CDROM things (unstable not
recommended)
- Q40 SMSQ/E 3.17/3.31 with QubATA driver (CF card/ZIP 100/Hard
disk/CDROM reader)
- QPC2 4.04
Here are some screenshots :
QCDEZE2 on QPC2 On BBQL with Tetroid 768Kb/QubIDE On SGC/AURORA/QubIDE exploring RAW disk Copying files I upload here the archive with program and instructions for those who want to take a look.
Feedback, comments, review : Welcome
Alain
After some investigations, I wanted to enhance functionalities and to have a program working on various QL platforms.
So, I decided to write my own program but conserving graphical concepts of QCDeze and nice icons.
This is now achieved and I called it for now simply QCDeze2.
The new QCDEZE2 is a multipurpose devices browser for QL platforms and compatibles. It can browse :
- foreign physical devices (CDROMs, Hard disks/Memory Cards - ATA/ATAPI)
- binary device images (e.g. .iso .img)
- containers (QXL.win) and QUB/BDI
CDROM and DATA CD images should be ISO 9660 format compliant
Hard disks and disk binary images could be multipartitioned QWA/QLWA from SMSQ/E or QLW1 from QubIDE format.
Direct access read is done with QubATA, SMSQ/E WIN drivers and TG ATAPI/CDROM Things.
Some images and containers may be enclosed inside a parent image, e.g. a QXL.WIN in parent.ISO in grandparent.ISO in DOS2_distrib.ISO
As the original QCDEZE, all files shown by the software, regardless of media beeing read, can be executed, viewed or copied to any QL native drive present on the system.
I made my best effort to keep this software as "slim and fast" as possible to allow runing on almost all QL platforms with a mimimum of resources :
Prerequisites are simply TK2, PE and ~300KB of free memory.
FileInfo2 and QMenu are usefull but not mandatory.
Behaviour of PE is made very close to QPTR/QPAC2 standard.
This software should run indifferently under QDOS (may be any ROM) with PE or SMSQ/E systems.
This software was tested on following systems :
- Original standard QL with Tetroid (768KB)-CF card and JS ROM
- Original standard QL with QubIde clone (512KB)-CF to SD adapter
and JS ROM
- AURORA+SGC+QubIDE Minerva ROM, QDOS and SMSQ/E with QubATA
driver
- AURORA+SGC+QubIDE Minerva, SMSQ/E with TG ATAPI/CDROM Things
- Q40 SMSQ/E 3.17/3.31 with TG ATAPI/CDROM things (unstable not
recommended)
- Q40 SMSQ/E 3.17/3.31 with QubATA driver (CF card/ZIP 100/Hard
disk/CDROM reader)
- QPC2 4.04
Here are some screenshots :
QCDEZE2 on QPC2 On BBQL with Tetroid 768Kb/QubIDE On SGC/AURORA/QubIDE exploring RAW disk Copying files I upload here the archive with program and instructions for those who want to take a look.
Feedback, comments, review : Welcome
Alain