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Posted: **Thu Oct 10, 2013 2:35 pm**

What did you think of the final issue?

Posted: **Thu Oct 10, 2013 8:05 pm**

A great issue with a good range of topics.

Posted: **Thu Oct 10, 2013 8:54 pm**

Well, there was (understandably) quite a bit of farewell articles and not so much technical content as usual. But, al in all, a great issue

By far the best is the DVD - A real collectable!

Tobias

Posted: **Thu Oct 10, 2013 9:05 pm**

And how did everyone like the Fleet tactical Command article?

Posted: **Thu Oct 10, 2013 10:09 pm**

Was great - that reminds me - could do with a video of you playing it!

Would also like a copy for the preservation project please....

Posted: **Fri Oct 11, 2013 8:08 am**

I think I sent you one but it had that weird copy protection on so that any copy doesn't work

I rarely play on the original discs as I'm worried they will break so I mainly play on the demo from Dilwyn's site.

Posted: **Fri Oct 11, 2013 7:49 pm**

Sorry my previous post was so terse. I am using my phone at the moment and good as the virtual keyboard is, it's still not as easy as a full sized real one

I remember FTC when it came out but I thought it would be simply too difficult to play. The article sort of confirmed that but also made me wish I'd tried. A fascinating and detailed overview, we'll written and comprehensive.

Anyway, I'd recommend the mag + Dvd bundle to all QL fans =)

Posted: **Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:51 pm**

vanpeebles wrote:I think I sent you one but it had that weird copy protection on so that any copy doesn't work I rarely play on the original discs as I'm worried they will break so I mainly play on the demo from Dilwyn's site.

Could you perhaps make a disk image with rawread?

QPC2 can handle disk images I believe...

Posted: **Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:20 pm**

RWAP wrote:
vanpeebles wrote:
QPC2 can handle disk images I believe...

Rich,
nope, it cannot, I'm afraid.

SMSQmulator can, but only read-only.

uqlx can

, as well as QEmulator

, I believe.

But installing a QL emulator just for the purpose of creating a disk image is probably overkill.

On Linux, a disk image (even of a QL disk) can easily be created by

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dd if=/dev/fd0 of=diskimage

For DOS and windows, a special disk image writer like

rawrite for windows (http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite) will do the job.

Regards,
Tobias

Posted: **Sat Oct 12, 2013 9:42 am**

tofro wrote:
RWAP wrote:
vanpeebles wrote:
For DOS and windows, a special disk image writer like

rawrite for windows (http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite) will do the job.

Regards,
Tobias

When I try to download this I get a message which says:
"rawwritewin-0.7.zip contained a virus and was deleted" from M$ Security Essentials. A similar message from AVG is shown on my laptop.
Anyone else got this, or was it a "false positive"?

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