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Getting QL files onto Linux
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2016 8:32 pm
by RWAP
I have games which are currently saved from within q-emulator into Windows folders and run well.
However, if a Linux user wants to play one of these games - what is the best method to supply them?
Does uQLx support a disk image for example?
Re: Getting QL files onto Linux
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:44 pm
by tofro
QPC2 runs very well using WINE on Linux and can use floppy images.
uqlx does support both real QDOS floppies (in case the user still has a drive) and floppy disk images (simple device dumps which can be created using rawrite, for example)
.uqlxrc:
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DEVICE = flp1,~/disks/flp-image,qdos-fs
DEVICE = flp2_,dev/fd0h720,qdos-fs
makes flp1_ using a disk image named
flp-image in the user's home directory and flp2_ the first real 720k drive.
Tobias
Re: Getting QL files onto Linux
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2016 10:33 pm
by RWAP
OK - I will create a floppy disk image in q-emulator and copy the files to that.
They can then load the programs from uqlx, so that makes it easy - thanks
Re: Getting QL files onto Linux
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 9:32 am
by Derek_Stewart
Hi,
Why not use a QXL.WIN file and use QPC2, SMSQmulator, QEMulator with Wine under Linux, this what I do.
I quite like the NFA device on SMSQmulator, so that a downloaded file can be unzipped from SMSQ/E in the native file system without loss of file header or excutable header.
If you use QPC2_QLSCREMU command in QPC2, most games may run.