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creating floppy disks with Greaseweazle
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2025 5:48 pm
by Traindriver69
Hi All
I have just got my QL working but no software to run on it but I do have a greaseweazle which can create floppy disks and some software called flux my fluffy floppy but it does not see the ql software I have downloaded Is there a way of using my greaseweazle so I can create some floppys to run on my QL.
Re: creating floppy disks with Greaseweazle
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2025 6:25 pm
by XorA
Use qltools
https://github.com/NormanDunbar/qltools to write the QDOS software to floppy images.
Then write those to disk using the GW!
Re: creating floppy disks with Greaseweazle
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2025 6:42 pm
by Traindriver69
sorry to be a pain but is there or could you let me have a little bit of a walkthrough on how to do this in windows as I have looked at qltools but as I am an Idiot I cant work out how to transfer the files an Idiot guide would be much appreciated.
Many Thanks
Re: creating floppy disks with Greaseweazle
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2025 8:58 pm
by swensont
Dilwyn has a page with information like this:
https://dilwyn.theqlforum.com/gen/backt ... ktoql.html
See if it is useful.
Tim
Re: creating floppy disks with Greaseweazle
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2025 5:31 am
by bwinkel67
You can also use Q-emulator to write to an actual floppy -- it can be a USB floppy. OI forget if you can format it directly, but if not you can do the formatting on the QL-side.
Re: creating floppy disks with Greaseweazle
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2025 11:04 am
by XorA
bwinkel67 wrote: Thu Jul 24, 2025 5:31 am
You can also use Q-emulator to write to an actual floppy -- it can be a USB floppy. OI forget if you can format it directly, but if not you can do the formatting on the QL-side.
The same is actually true of sQLux too, there was a discussion on it on the forum somewhere. I keep forgetting it can do it in Windows too as I'm a 100% linux guy!
Re: creating floppy disks with Greaseweazle
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2025 12:14 pm
by dilwyn
XorA wrote: Thu Jul 24, 2025 11:04 am
bwinkel67 wrote: Thu Jul 24, 2025 5:31 am
You can also use Q-emulator to write to an actual floppy -- it can be a USB floppy. OI forget if you can format it directly, but if not you can do the formatting on the QL-side.
The same is actually true of sQLux too, there was a discussion on it on the forum somewhere. I keep forgetting it can do it in Windows too as I'm a 100% linux guy!
There was this from Markus
https://www.theqlforum.com/viewtopic.ph ... &start=730 regarding use of floppy drives on sQLux in Windoze, IIRC ql_freak confirmed it worked on his system at the time:
Re: Today I Received...
Post by desin ยป Sun Apr 06, 2025 11:33 am
Mini-Tower with built in 31/2" Teac Floppy Disk Drive
Windows 7
DEVICE=FLP1,\\.\a:,qdos-native
Linux
DEVICE=FLP1,/dev/fd0,qdos-native
hope it helps
Markus