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Re: ZEsarUX 10.0
Posted: Tue May 06, 2025 3:15 pm
by Popopo
XorA wrote: Tue May 06, 2025 2:59 pm
If you mean the keyboard emulation is broken, then yes it is and always has been, its next to unusable IMO and the main reason I do not use or recommend this emulator.
Agree 100%
XorA wrote: Tue May 06, 2025 2:59 pm
For example
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❯ ls -R mdv1/
BOOT TK232_net.bin
point the mdv directory at that directory and the emulator will create a virtual MDV for you.
oooh that is new for me. I will try to do it.
I need to download it again and re-read the docs. Cause I am not sure how to proceed.
By your images... if I understood right... you create a dir named mdv and then the emulator create a virtual MDV using that directory.
That is a different approach that I was trying, mine was loading a MDV image. But I want to try out that way too even when I see that this emulator for coding or testing (for me) is not the best as it is.
Re: ZEsarUX 10.0
Posted: Tue May 06, 2025 4:03 pm
by XorA
By your images... if I understood right... you create a dir named mdv and then the emulator create a virtual MDV using that directory.
That is a different approach that I was trying, mine was loading a MDV image. But I want to try out that way too even when I see that this emulator for coding or testing (for me) is not the best as it is.
I do not see a way to add a qlay image, no matter what the docs say about support
Re: ZEsarUX 10.0
Posted: Tue May 06, 2025 8:33 pm
by Exile
I have mixed views on ZEsarUX.
It is clearly a massive piece of work and it appears to have been a labour of love for many years. It supports a very large number of computers, some very obscure. The code is freely available on github. On the downside I really struggle with the UI. I also know of no way to raise an issue for ZEsarUX on github.
I spend my time on the QL and ZX81.
QL support within ZEsarUX now appears much better than it did the last time I tried it. It runs at a reasonable speed on a Pi 5. However, there are still issues, as this thread discusses.
Emulating a ZX81 is surprisingly hard. The display is effectively software generated with very tight timings. "Modern" ZX81 programs can do things that Clive would not have thought possible, but it is a challenge to emulate them correctly.
EightyOne (Windows), sz81 (Linux), picozx81 (Pi Pico) and CLK (Mac and Linux) run pretty much every one of the "difficult" programs correctly. ZEsarUX fails on many of them.
Re: ZEsarUX 10.0
Posted: Wed May 07, 2025 12:27 pm
by Popopo
XorA wrote: Tue May 06, 2025 4:03 pm
I do not see a way to add a qlay image, no matter what the docs say about support
Again 100% agree with you. It says one thing, reality is different.
Re: ZEsarUX 10.0
Posted: Wed May 07, 2025 12:30 pm
by Popopo
Exile wrote: Tue May 06, 2025 8:33 pm
I have mixed views on ZEsarUX.
It is clearly a massive piece of work and it appears to have been a labour of love for many years. It supports a very large number of computers, some very obscure. The code is freely available on github. On the downside I really struggle with the UI. I also know of no way to raise an issue for ZEsarUX on github.
I spend my time on the QL and ZX81.
QL support within ZEsarUX now appears much better than it did the last time I tried it. It runs at a reasonable speed on a Pi 5. However, there are still issues, as this thread discusses.
Emulating a ZX81 is surprisingly hard. The display is effectively software generated with very tight timings. "Modern" ZX81 programs can do things that Clive would not have thought possible, but it is a challenge to emulate them correctly.
EightyOne (Windows), sz81 (Linux), picozx81 (Pi Pico) and CLK (Mac and Linux) run pretty much every one of the "difficult" programs correctly. ZEsarUX fails on many of them.
Exile... how to say it?
I love the way you have wrote your comment.
You wrote it in such an elegant, polite and accurate way that I enjoyed a lot re-reading your comment in order to learn from you the style.
Respectful, correct, accurate, with good balance between techs/specs and final results...
100% agree with you too.
Re: ZEsarUX 10.0
Posted: Wed May 07, 2025 1:36 pm
by XorA
It is important to note there is some ZEsarUX in every sQLux
I got a lot of inspiration for some things from the ZEsarUX code. The keyboard is probably a relatively easy fix if I could just work out why its so weird!
Re: ZEsarUX 10.0
Posted: Fri May 09, 2025 8:55 pm
by jobdone
NormanDunbar wrote: Tue Feb 18, 2025 3:26 pm
tofro wrote: Tue Feb 18, 2025 8:59 am
In case you want more choices, QPC2 works perfectly fine with Wine
Excepty for physical access to floppies! I can confirm the above as I've been using WPC2 since it came out, on Linux, under wine.
Cheers,
Norm.
completely missed the boat on this one, but have you tried physical access to floppies on sQLux?
Re: ZEsarUX 10.0
Posted: Fri May 09, 2025 10:31 pm
by desin