Source for most recent QL-SD

prime · Post by **prime** » Sun Feb 20, 2022 2:30 pm

Hi all,

Is there an archive somewhere of the QL-SD rom source code, I have the source to an erlier release but see that it has been updated since then.

Cheers.

Phill.

mk79 · Post by **mk79** » Sun Feb 20, 2022 2:36 pm

It‘s contained in the SMSQ/E source code. The latest will come out with the next SMSQ/E, which will be released soon

prime · Post by **prime** » Sun Feb 20, 2022 6:02 pm

mk79 wrote:It‘s contained in the SMSQ/E source code. The latest will come out with the next SMSQ/E, which will be released soon

It is? Oh that's changed since the last archive I had in 2014

Can the rob be built independently of the rest of SMSQ/E for use on a standard QL?

Cheers.

Phill.

mk79 · Post by **mk79** » Sun Feb 20, 2022 6:09 pm

prime wrote:
mk79 wrote:It‘s contained in the SMSQ/E source code. The latest will come out with the next SMSQ/E, which will be released soon
It is? Oh that's changed since the last archive I had in 2014

Oh, that‘s the old QubIDE based driver then. The current version is based on the SMSQ WIN driver.

Can the rob be built independently of the rest of SMSQ/E for use on a standard QL?

Sure. I suggest using QMake. Files are in dv3_qlsd.

Marcel

prime · Post by **prime** » Sun Feb 20, 2022 6:59 pm

mk79 wrote: Oh, that‘s the old QubIDE based driver then. The current version is based on the SMSQ WIN driver.

Right so deffo worth upgrading.

Can the rob be built independently of the rest of SMSQ/E for use on a standard QL?

Sure. I suggest using QMake. Files are in dv3_qlsd.
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Excellent, now just got to remember how I did this before, was using an emulator under Windows and cross building the ROM.

The reason I want to do this is that I have a version of the QL-SD which I have built onto an expansion card along with a respin of the Trump card (using 512K static RAMS and a CPLD for logic).
This version uses a standard memory mapped port for communicating with the SPI hardware, so I'll need to slightly change the low level access routines.

Once this is all done, I plan to release the whole lot on my GitHub, but want to get the SD code updated first.

Cheers.

Phill.

Peter · Post by **Peter** » Mon Feb 21, 2022 10:21 am

mk79 wrote:The current version is based on the SMSQ WIN driver.
Can the rob be built independently of the rest of SMSQ/E for use on a standard QL?
Sure. I suggest using QMake. Files are in dv3_qlsd.

Still the full SMSQ/E sources are required, as the files needed for the QL-SD driver are scattered all around.
I was interested to isolate the files needed for QL-SD to get things more compact and a better overview, but don't want to fork the sources just for that.
Maybe an automated script that pulls out the required files would be a nice solution, but I have no time for it soon.

Derek_Stewart · Post by **Derek_Stewart** » Mon Feb 21, 2022 11:47 pm

mk79 wrote:
prime wrote:
mk79 wrote:It‘s contained in the SMSQ/E source code. The latest will come out with the next SMSQ/E, which will be released soon
It is? Oh that's changed since the last archive I had in 2014
Oh, that‘s the old QubIDE based driver then. The current version is based on the SMSQ WIN driver.
Can the rob be built independently of the rest of SMSQ/E for use on a standard QL?
Sure. I suggest using QMake. Files are in dv3_qlsd.

Marcel

I looked at the QL-SD source code in dv3_qlsd can QMAKE compile the QL-SD driver code as a ROM or LRESPR file?

The file dv3_qlsd_txt implies this can be done.

mk79 · Post by **mk79** » Tue Feb 22, 2022 12:03 am

Derek_Stewart wrote:I looked at the QL-SD source code in dv3_qlsd can QMAKE compile the QL-SD driver code as a ROM or LRESPR file?

The file dv3_qlsd_txt implies this can be done.

Maybe the filenames "rom_link" and "respr_link" give you a hint.

prime · Post by **prime** » Tue Feb 22, 2022 10:11 am

Hi all,
I've now got Qmake installed on my QPC setup, so I execute with :

ex win1_qmake_qmake;"\C dev8_dv3_qlsd_rom"

Qmake starts minimized (is there a way to get it to start windowed?). When I maximize it and hit Do I get an error :

"Error: win1_prog_gst_QMac not found"

Not supprising as it's not there? I have qmac installed in win1_assembler_qmac How can I change this?
Is there a config file for qmake to tell it where to find the assembler / linker etc, I'm asuming the above not found instance is the baked in one.

Cheers.

Phill.

Derek_Stewart · Post by **Derek_Stewart** » Tue Feb 22, 2022 10:29 am

mk79 wrote:
Derek_Stewart wrote:I looked at the QL-SD source code in dv3_qlsd can QMAKE compile the QL-SD driver code as a ROM or LRESPR file?

The file dv3_qlsd_txt implies this can be done.
Maybe the filenames "rom_link" and "respr_link" give you a hint.

Hi Marcel,

I was going to extract the dv3_qlsd directory and alter the link files to compile the code.

I just thought QMAKE did it.

QMAKE is probably one of the last QL applications I bought, to comply with the SMSQ/E source compilation, stated in the Style Guide, but it went free... Still a good piece of software.

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