Creating ready to use empty mdv or flp files for whichever emulator

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Martin_Head
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Re: Creating ready to use empty mdv or flp files for whichever emulator

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mystikshadows wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2024 4:30 am it seems my qlay 2 does want to make_mdi or make_fdi...if i type those in the emulator i get bad command on both. Either that or I'm seriously crippled in the art of having and operating an emulator lol
I seem to remember way back. I tried the MDI/FDI driver in Qlay, and it didn't work to well, or at all. But I never bothered to find out why, as Qlay did not seem to be too popular.

I'm pretty sure I made a stand alone program that would just create floppy and microdrive image files. But I'm not at my main PC at the moment, so I will need to have a look for it.

I would have thought I would have uploaded it here. I've had a quick look here, but I can't even remember what I called it.


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Re: Creating ready to use empty mdv or flp files for whichever emulator

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https://github.com/xXorAa/mdvtool

I am not the original author, but I added a couple of hacks after I split it from the MiST sources.

Works under windows and linux fine.

Makes qlay format MDV images, will even unzip directly into the image!


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Re: Creating ready to use empty mdv or flp files for whichever emulator

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Found it on my main system.

This program adds SuperBASIC keywords to create MDI, Qemulator, Qlay, and floppy images.
And conversion routines between MDV images.

If there are issues with QLay, Just use the program in QPC2, or Qemulator to create the images.
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