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In case you'd like to study the sources:

Turbo: https://dilwyn.theqlforum.com/turbo/trbos22.zip
These sources for Turbo were maintained by the late George Gwilt after it stopped being sold by Dig. Precision. Before George got involved, some work had been done on updating the Turbo Toolkit in ...

Although it probably won't be needed if a command line dummy like me can master mdvtool, I did make a short 4-page manual for my own reference, with a few examples of how to use mdvtool (in case I don't use it for a while and forget all the commands and their syntax).

Happy to make any corrections ...

Really sorry, nothing bad intended, just a bad joke.


hehehehehe,
Google sometimes translate "I wanna an ice cream" by "kill your colleague with ice while he scream" When translated into Russian.

:D
We also have some awful examples in Wales of using Google Translate to translate between ...

Popopo wrote: Fri Jun 13, 2025 4:46 pm Who write manuals in each possible language?

Google Translate, maybe?

Really sorry, nothing bad intended, just a bad joke.

Thank you XorA for the Windows binary of MDVtool. I've been playing with it, seems to work OK so far, once my brain is in gear to handle the command line command formats. Reading the generated .MDV image in QL2K seems to work, albeit very slowly, I get the impression that "Fast microdrives" in the ...

I hope that Popopo doesn't mind me copying the links from the YouTube video here, for those who don't wish to watch the video, or can't due to inadequate broadband. I'm not sure if links embedded within a quote will work on the Forum, if they don't I'll try to edit them later.

The video shows how ...

I thought I was unable to vote, but then I remembered I wasn't logged in, dohh!

Thank you, I'll give it a try when I get back later today.

Glad to hear.

Good that you're prepared to experiment a little with emulators to find the best one for you.

If running older QL software is your thing, QemuLator is a good choice. It's QDOS based (can run a version of SMSQ/E too if you ask it nicely) and has good compatibility with older software ...

So sorry to hear of this. Becoming all too common in life in general.