sq68ux gains sound and writing to disk

[XorA]

A very long way from v1.00 release but might be useful to some.

https://github.com/xXorAa/sQ68Lay

Has gained SSSS (or however many S's you like) sound.
It has also gained the ability to write to SD card images (which has been missing a long time).

[janbredenbeek]

A very long way from v1.00 release but might be useful to some.

https://github.com/xXorAa/sQ68Lay

Has gained SSSS (or however many S's you like) sound.
It has also gained the ability to write to SD card images (which has been missing a long time).

Thanks, I see that the 'loglevel' error message has been fixed now?
Will be curious to test Minerva4Q68 on it (too late for today...)

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi,

I updated my distro, sound working, UB files can be played with SOUNDFILE commands, my AC/DC "Whole Lotta Rosie" SOX convert is working.

Well done.

[Peter]

Great job! Being able to write now makes this a really useful tool. At the moment I only tried under Linux, since I don't want to dive into Windows Toolchain installation. Could a precompiled Windows executable be provided without much effort?

[XorA]

Great job! Being able to write now makes this a really useful tool. At the moment I only tried under Linux, since I don't want to dive into Windows Toolchain installation. Could a precompiled Windows executable be provided without much effort?

Its always generated on every commit!

https://github.com/xXorAa/sQ68Lay/releases/tag/latest

[janbredenbeek]

Hi XorA,
I tried the Windows version (couldn't get the Linux version working because of a missing libSDL3, which I couldn't find with apt) but got an error message 'Error: Short Read Q68_SMSQ.BIN 567'.

I tried the Q68_SMSQ.BIN from the repository and the latest binary from the 3.42 distribution.

[XorA]

Hi XorA,
I tried the Windows version (couldn't get the Linux version working because of a missing libSDL3, which I couldn't find with apt) but got an error message 'Error: Short Read Q68_SMSQ.BIN 567'.

I tried the Q68_SMSQ.BIN from the repository and the latest binary from the 3.42 distribution.

The error message is normal, I think you are missing the SD1=blah.img (it crashes the emulator to be missing, I failed at negative testing here). Will fix it when I re-do file IO stuff soon!

[XorA]

The file issues are fixed, but there is still a nasty issue with performance counter I need to think about.

You might get lucky if your machine's one is 40Mhz or higher!

[janbredenbeek]

Hi XorA,
I tried the Windows version (couldn't get the Linux version working because of a missing libSDL3, which I couldn't find with apt) but got an error message 'Error: Short Read Q68_SMSQ.BIN 567'.

The error message is normal, I think you are missing the SD1=blah.img (it crashes the emulator to be missing, I failed at negative testing here). Will fix it when I re-do file IO stuff soon!

Ah yes of course... have imaged my SD card now and it works. Could get SMSQ/E running but not Minerva (placed Q68_ROM.SYS in the home directory, or should it be on the SD image itself?). Also I cannot access the FAT partition. But thanks anyway!

[janbredenbeek]

You might get lucky if your machine's one is 40Mhz or higher!

I got a QL index of 1180, on my 14th Gen i7. The score of the real Q68 is about 25...