Sinclair QL + QSound demo

[spkr]

Hi there guys,

we have finished and released our latest Sinclair QL demo, which was a while in the making... It requires Stock QL (JSRom), 128kb memory and benefits from using a QSound expansion.

You can find the demo here: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=97019 (also contains a Youtube, but demo is better enjoyed on real hardware).

It was targetted to use MDV, so on any other storage medium YMMV.

It wont run on minerva.

Kind regards,
WIetze

[chriskgnr]

Wow, impressive!

[Andrew]

Hi there guys,

we have finished and released our latest Sinclair QL demo, which was a while in the making... It requires Stock QL (JSRom), 128kb memory and benefits from using a QSound expansion.

Wow, really impressive! Parts of your demo make me dream on how could Elite would have looked on QL!

[ones' complement]

"It requires Stock QL"

OK, I'll bite. WTF is a ql68k.mdv file? 170.8kb

I've used a QL since it they first came out, never known such a file - it ain't stock AFAIK. Or is it meant for an emulator ? How would such be transferred and used on a real QL?

[spkr]

"It requires Stock QL"

OK, I'll bite. WTF is a ql68k.mdv file? 170.8kb

I've used a QL since it they first came out, never known such a file - it ain't stock AFAIK. Or is it meant for an emulator ? How would such be transferred and used on a real QL?

I wasn't taunting. I honestly expected this would be a default file for you guys. The Mdv is a microdrive image which I expected you could use to get the files from

But you make it seem like this is difficult. So I'll link you the seperate files in a zip file and you can use whatever is convenient for you to transfer it to your machine.

Kind regards
Wietze

[spkr]

https://frummel.org/~weedz/atari/prods/ql/ql.zip

God speed!

[ones' complement]

Thank you, I can make sense out of that unwrapped version

(The only emulator I use is SMSQmulator)

[aalea]

OK, I'll bite. WTF is a ql68k.mdv file? 170.8kb

How would such be transferred and used on a real QL?

Is a image of a microdrive, like a .iso file is a image of a CDROM, there are several, this is a Qlay microdrive image, some emulators can load it.

I have a "hardware microdrive emulator" to load this file in real machine, (there is at least oqtadrv and micropicodrive, and probably others).

Also there is a mdidriver in the utility section of dilwyn page that allow to mount this image as a microdrive from floppy or other media, and then you can copy to a real microdrive.

This also work with emulators that do not support microdrive, like SQLUX.

[chriskgnr]

Tested on a 128KB QL with Qsound card.
Most impressive!

[Martin_Head]

Also there is a mdidriver in the utility section of dilwyn page that allow to mount this image as a microdrive from floppy or other media, and then you can copy to a real microdrive.

Just a small note. The Qlay image would need to be converted to an MDI image first. There are commands in the MDI driver to do this for you.