I know GST-68K mdv format is not compatible with QDOS.
Someone has an GST-68K utilities-mdv image to use with a QL-Emulator ? ...
Other solutions are welcome ....

Regards!
M.
Would it be possible to write a dumping program which doesn't rely on the cartridge map and 'blindly' reads all the sectors?tofro wrote:The mdv clone programs that are around to create true sector images of microdrives could be of some help here and could maybe be able to create a copy if a bit of luck applies.
As the hardware is pretty much bound to Sinclair specifications, I'd guess the pure physical sector format on a microdrive should/could be identical to the QDOS physical format (That is, a header and 512bytes sectors). It could, however, be (and is very probable) that the map and directory sectors are in different places.
Tobias
This driver http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/utils/MDIdriver107.zip contains a Machine code/Basic program which does a 'blind' read of a QL Microdrive cartridge and creates an image file of the cartridge. I don't know if it could be adapted to read GST-68K Microdrive cartridges.MaxRaf wrote:
Would it be possible to write a dumping program which doesn't rely on the cartridge map and 'blindly' reads all the sectors?
Something similar to what floppy imaging programs do...
Max