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Yes, this is the device I have bought. It works, but now I have detected, that I could not read a lot of old disks because of: Medium Check Failed (Bad Medium on a normal QL) I will try an exchange device from PEARL, cause I can read these floppies on my other PC without any problems (Native floppy ...

Thank You pjw! But I think my solution is in this case easier. Your solution is surely good, if you are working on a real QL. But if you are working on an emulator, I think my solution is easier (if you have an hex editor or an editor which is capable of hex editing for Windows available - like e.g....

How can I set the medium name when formatting a new WIN file? I have tried: FORMAT 'WIN2_132_QPCqclub1' which creates the file "QPCqclub1.WIN", when I now enter: DIR'WIN2_' The result is: WIN2 lu QDOS 270115/270335 sectors When I enter DIR'WIN1_' for the QPCDEMO WIN file supplied with QPC2...

I have now bought an USB floppy disk drive from xystec, in Germany available from PEARL (http://www.pearl.de). It works without any driver (just connect to an USB jack) on the latest version of Windows 10 (maps automatically to drive A: - I have disabled my mainboard floppy disk support in the BIOS,...

A Question: Is there any chance, to support longer pathnames than the currently 41 chars (devX_ + filename_with_36_chars)? QL was great at its times with its 36 character long filenames, but unfortunately this is also the maximum pathname length. We need a new directory device, which supports longer...

@Rich Mellor: That are good news, then I will buy such a drive, cause I'm too lazy to make disk images of all my disks. ED drives are not so important, as I have just a few.

@Christian: Thank You

@Marcel: Thank you, I've made a table with QL codes with the help of a small SupberBASIC program and QPC2. Unicode is not needed at the moment as charConvert currently doesn't support Unicode.

Are their USB floppy disk devices (controller and drive) which are compatible with: Windows 10 AND QPC2 ? QPC2 runs perfectly in Windows 10, but I can't access the floppy disk drive. The disk drive/interface is OK(!). I have testet it with MenuetOS which starts perfectly from the disk. But the same ...

RWAP> I run Windows 10 Pro - I have a USB floppy disk drive, and it works fine with q-emulator (not tried it with QPC2). I can also access PC disks in the A drive. [ S E E ___ B E L O W ] I also have Win10 Pro (Enterprise is unfortunately not available for private persons :-() RWAP> One thing which ...

I can proove that QPC2 runs perfectly under Windows 10. BUT: At least with the most current version (October/November 2016) there seems to be no floppy disk support in Windows 10 any more, at least not for standard floppy disk connector on the mainboard. Perhaps it will work with USB floppy drives (...