I have t87+4 demo as avaialble at Dilwyn's site.
Is there a way it can be tricked into working on a plain JS ROM QL with 512K add on RAM?
When I load it over SER2 line, it just does not seem to come up.
Just a thought, e.g. does it look for a default font on a default device, and when not found it quits silently?
The executable will look for the fonts and printer drivers on flp1_ which is probably what is causing the issue - it is just a shame that no-one has the contact for Di-Ren - I think their fileserver program implements similar commands to the Toolkit II FSERVE and NFS_USE commands which would overcome this...
I do have a copy of Di-Ren's Fileserver II disk (but the only manual I have is for Fileserver I which does not quite tally)... £8 plus postage
I have Text87 (not sure about the version), original package with disk.
The behaviour is the same - it simply does not run when executed from the floppy - SGC + Minerva (i.e., nothing happens after EXEC excepting temporary disk activity, Basic command line cursor is active again. No new job in JOBS list).