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Hi No problems, I just not get it to work. I generally uncompress archive files to a QDOS environment, which preserves the executable header eithout messing about wilth the QDOS file header. Using your own test I have tried. ./x86_64/qem-unzip -d~/test "~/Downloads/flightdeck.zip" with th...

Derek_Stewart wrote:Hi,

How do I get sQLux to execute a QDOS executable file unzipped with qemi-unzip.

I made a DEVICE as qdos-like but the rxecutable file teturns a bad parameter when loaded with EX or EW

It should just work with the latest in git, but its still in development so there might be some bugs!

Derek_Stewart wrote:Hi,

I had to put the complete file path to the decompress directory and the zip file.

Maybe I am a little bit out of date.

I will look at an upgrade.

No need, I've just pushed what should fix this for you. Code now does shell expansion of passed filenames!

Hi, I downloaded the qemu-unzip git zip file and compiled it on my Mint 19.3 laptop, I needed to install libzip-dev... Strnagely, the complied executable is called "qem-unzip" Running qem-unzip, with flightdeck demo from QL Homepage, gives derek@lp1:./qem-unzip -d ~/flight ./flightdeck.zi...

Thats not something I would use as the Emulator does that conversion for me! In Q-emulator, when I attach the folder where I qem-unzip'ed a zip file from Dilwyn's site and do a DIR FLP1_, I see the files with dot notation. Is that normal or have I missed something? It's always done that, I assumed ...

Hahah! Clever me ;) I'm moving off macOS to Linux for the same reason as it goes. Just waiting for the laptop supplier I want to buy from to start using intel gen12 mobile processors first, so maybe mid year I'm guessing. I did have one question: the program unzips files with the PC style .bas, .tx...

I'm not very familiar with C based programs and their build tools, but I managed to work it out and run the tool on macOS, and I think that the steps are identical on Linux (including Windows WSL), so here is the README file I wrote for future-me to remember (I find I have to do this a lot these da...

Updated now to add -d <directory> support.

Your wish might be difficult to grant. The forum runs on something called phpBB. It probably uses a mysql database to hold posts, topics, etc -- but don't quote me because I didn't check! I did look for tools to combine/merge multiple posts into one document, with no luck. Here's a thought experime...

Thanks a lot for your advice. However QPC and SMSQmulator are the super-QL emulators, they cannot just emulate an good old QL from the 80s. I have also discovered sQLux. It seems it is the best variant for me. However I am a bit shocked that the same benchmark runs on MAME/MESS 4 times faster than ...