QWIRC 0.66 from Per Witte is solely for QPC2 is anyone aware of a version for the Q68 or Q40?
His website also seems to have disappeared.
Thanks for any info
QWIRC for Q68 and Qx0
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Re: QWIRC for Q68 and Qx0
Hi Duncan
Per shut his web site down and I am not sure if he around.
I have some of his excellent software, but not all.
It is a great miss.
He also has a Q68...
Maybe the current version could updated to suite the Q68
Regards,
Derek
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Re: QWIRC for Q68 and Qx0
Some twenty years ago I experimented with incorporating the Qx0 into Qwirc's
repertoire, but for some reason I didnt go though with it. I guess it had something
to do with it not being quite as useful when you have a limited number of targets;
whereas on QPC2 and SMSQmulator you can have tens of different "QXL.WIN" files.
A couple of years ago I did a complete overhaul of Qwirc. As I thought I was the
only person in the world to use it I never bothered to finish it to the degree that
it could be let loose. I could take another look at it..
Can anyone say off the cuff whether the Qx0 and Q68 use the same sort of
parameters for WIN drives? I no longer have my Q60 to test it on.
repertoire, but for some reason I didnt go though with it. I guess it had something
to do with it not being quite as useful when you have a limited number of targets;
whereas on QPC2 and SMSQmulator you can have tens of different "QXL.WIN" files.
A couple of years ago I did a complete overhaul of Qwirc. As I thought I was the
only person in the world to use it I never bothered to finish it to the degree that
it could be let loose. I could take another look at it..
Can anyone say off the cuff whether the Qx0 and Q68 use the same sort of
parameters for WIN drives? I no longer have my Q60 to test it on.
Per
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Re: QWIRC for Q68 and Qx0
Thanks Derek and Per for the helpful replies.
I have had a further look at QWIRC on QPC2 and it does not seem to have the function I was hoping it might have. If I have understood the program correctly the QXL.win files that can be mounted as alternates for a Win slot need to be listed in the .rsc file? I was hoping to to be able to browse for alternative QXL.win files to mount in to unused slots.
The reason for this is my Q60 has 2 sata disks and a CF card reader. The 1st sata has 4 QWA partitions while the 2nd is formatted Win 32 and has 8 QXL.win files at the moment of which only 4 are mounted at boot. The CF cards are formatted with win 32 and can carry many additional QXL.win files. I want to be able to manage - mount/unmount QXL.win files especially when swapping CF cards without needing to keep an upto date list of all the QXL.win files on whichever medium. The CARD_DIR$ function of smsq/e allows the listing of QXL.win files on a medium/partition without a need to know what is where.
Thanks for the help.
Cheers
I have had a further look at QWIRC on QPC2 and it does not seem to have the function I was hoping it might have. If I have understood the program correctly the QXL.win files that can be mounted as alternates for a Win slot need to be listed in the .rsc file? I was hoping to to be able to browse for alternative QXL.win files to mount in to unused slots.
The reason for this is my Q60 has 2 sata disks and a CF card reader. The 1st sata has 4 QWA partitions while the 2nd is formatted Win 32 and has 8 QXL.win files at the moment of which only 4 are mounted at boot. The CF cards are formatted with win 32 and can carry many additional QXL.win files. I want to be able to manage - mount/unmount QXL.win files especially when swapping CF cards without needing to keep an upto date list of all the QXL.win files on whichever medium. The CARD_DIR$ function of smsq/e allows the listing of QXL.win files on a medium/partition without a need to know what is where.
Thanks for the help.
Cheers
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Re: QWIRC for Q68 and Qx0
Hi,
There looks to be no source code to QWIRC, so it would hard to see what the programme is doing, maybe a candidate for decompiling...
The QWA files used on the Q68 are read/write on SMSQmulator, QPC2, sQLux, QEMulator, I have not looked at the QWA paritions on the Q60, Atari QL hardware, my guess would be the QWA partitions are created in a Atari paritition structure.
I used to use atari-fdisk on the Q66 from Shoestring Linux to create the Q60 paritions structure, which was 3 QWA, 1 Linux partitions, on the master IDE drive.
This was well before FAT32 partition access was available to the Q60 and Q68.
Personally, I like the idea with the Q68 that QWA files can be mounted at anytime, there I assumed that the QWA file structure was the same over all SMSQ/E platforms.
There looks to be no source code to QWIRC, so it would hard to see what the programme is doing, maybe a candidate for decompiling...
The QWA files used on the Q68 are read/write on SMSQmulator, QPC2, sQLux, QEMulator, I have not looked at the QWA paritions on the Q60, Atari QL hardware, my guess would be the QWA partitions are created in a Atari paritition structure.
I used to use atari-fdisk on the Q66 from Shoestring Linux to create the Q60 paritions structure, which was 3 QWA, 1 Linux partitions, on the master IDE drive.
This was well before FAT32 partition access was available to the Q60 and Q68.
Personally, I like the idea with the Q68 that QWA files can be mounted at anytime, there I assumed that the QWA file structure was the same over all SMSQ/E platforms.
Regards,
Derek
Derek
Re: QWIRC for Q68 and Qx0
Its not quite as grim as that. There is an in-program MRU list, so induncan wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 4:54 pm Thanks Derek and Per for the helpful replies.
I have had a further look at QWIRC on QPC2 and it does not seem to have the function I was hoping it might have. If I have understood the program correctly the QXL.win files that can be mounted as alternates for a Win slot need to be listed in the .rsc file?
theory you only need to enter a new name once.
For QPC2 and SMSQmulator one could use my "DOS" browser, DOX, to browse forduncan wrote:I was hoping to to be able to browse for alternative QXL.win files to mount in to unused slots.
QXL.win file names on the host's file system. However, I never made a Qx0
or Q68 version of that.
I've had a look at what would be involved in making Qwirc work with Qx0 andduncan wrote:The reason for this is my Q60 has 2 sata disks and a CF card reader. The 1st sata has 4 QWA partitions while the 2nd is formatted Win 32 and has 8 QXL.win files at the moment of which only 4 are mounted at boot. The CF cards are formatted with win 32 and can carry many additional QXL.win files. I want to be able to manage - mount/unmount QXL.win files especially when swapping CF cards without needing to keep an upto date list of all the QXL.win files on whichever medium. The CARD_DIR$ function of smsq/e allows the listing of QXL.win files on a medium/partition without a need to know what is where.
Q68. I'll probably add Q68 to Qwirc's repertoire, but I doubt I'll get
round to doing a Qx0 version - not least because I no longer have such a
machine.
Per
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Re: QWIRC for Q68 and Qx0
No need for that, Derek. The next version of Qwirc, when it arrives, will come complete with source codeDerek_Stewart wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2023 8:55 am Hi,
There looks to be no source code to QWIRC, so it would hard to see what the programme is doing, maybe a candidate for decompiling...
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