sq68ux gains sound and writing to disk

[XorA]

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⬢ [arch] ❯ cat sq68ux.ini
#SMSQE = Q68_SMSQ.bin
sysrom = Q68_ROM.SYS
#SD1 = q68.img

for Minerva booting, the emulator itself does not yet access the SD image to fetch files from it.

Emulator doesn't run the boot firmware that is on a real Q68.

[janbredenbeek]

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⬢ [arch] ❯ cat sq68ux.ini
#SMSQE = Q68_SMSQ.bin
sysrom = Q68_ROM.SYS
#SD1 = q68.img

It boots, but I cannot access the WIN drives after having them configured.

Maybe it's due to the old SD card driver from Wolfgang. I'm looking for a way to backport the SMSQ/E driver but without success so far...

[XorA]

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⬢ [arch] ❯ cat sq68ux.ini
#SMSQE = Q68_SMSQ.bin
sysrom = Q68_ROM.SYS
#SD1 = q68.img

It boots, but I cannot access the WIN drives after having them configured.

Maybe it's due to the old SD card driver from Wolfgang. I'm looking for a way to backport the SMSQ/E driver but without success so far...

I currently only emulated the byte access style that smsq/e uses to access the card, I haven't checkout the source for the older driver to see how it does it!

[Peter]

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

Thanks, I didn't see the "Releases" link at the right side.

[XorA]

It has now gained the ability to "boot" off SD card only!

Its still possible to load SMSQE or SYSROM from a file for testing!

[XorA]

So just a warning, anyone who has run an SD image on sq68ux I have found some memory corruption in the SD part of the emulator, so its highly likely your image has some corruption on it.

I am currently debugging the issue, but its a slightly complex one so will take me a while!

If your only reading stuff then there is no issue!

[XorA]

So stumbled on the problem after some debugging with hardware breakpoints (an absolute lifesaver).

Verified the fix with the MAME code the SD emulation originally came from and a similar change was made there.

So I think the corruption issue is fixed.

Also this has fixed BlackPhoenix 1.5 booting on s68ux, so it can actually run real software now!