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I would use an existing tool. Exiftool is pretty good and it works on most operating systems (except QDOS, until someone ports Perl to it). As an example of usage, here is a command from a Windows script I wrote in 2010 that copies images from the camera to folders based on date: exiftool -r -d E:\...

Morning Per, It seems there are many confusing aspects to the dates and times in the EXIF data. According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exif at least. HTH a little. Cheers, Norm. Thanks Norm. Ive been there already. Doesnt give details of how to find the info in a reliable fashion, and documen...

Im trying to help a friend sorting her photos, which are widely spread over hard disks, external devices, phones, etc. The idea is to use an SBASIC program on QPC2 to drill down every device's directory structure looking for image-type files, extracting the date and copying those images on to a sing...

Derek_Stewart wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 9:39 pm Hi,

I have OCRed the QL Service Manual, inserted Martyn's Appendix D5. <>

Good job, Derek. It looks great. Thank you!

Martin_Head wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:43 pm Here's a document I made detailing the Microdrive image file formats. I can't remember if I've uploaded this in the past.

Super, Martin. Thanks!

Hi, I loaded the qlexpr2_mdv file into QPC2 WIN1 QWA container. Loaded MDI, which was v1.07 (need to up date) entered: CONVERT2_MDI "win1_exper2_mdv" to "mdi1_QLEXPERT_MDI" MOUNT_MDI 1,"win1_QLEXPERT_MDI" MDI_USE MDV LRUN mdv1_boot started up the QL Expert system in QP...

I downloaded qlexper2.mdv to have a quick peek. Knowing nothing of the various formats at the time, I fired up mdidriver_cde (V1.06, I think) and tried to mount the image. It returned Bad Name. So, naturally I went to Dilwyn's to see if there was a later version, or any other mdv image drivers. I fo...

<>I'm not sure Per, I pretty much exclusively use Qemulator because it's closest to original hardware. Hang on, I'll pack the files into a QL zip. Thanks. I managed in the end after fannying about for an hour. It seems we have at least three different mdv image formats. I hope theres a bloody good ...

So how does one read these images on, say, QPC2? I cant seem to find any utility that does. Martin Head's MDI driver wont mount them and his utility to convert Qlay type mdv images and Q-emulator type mdv images doesnt recognise the qlexper2_mdv image at least.

Theres a suggested solution here . Not strictly about turtle positions, but revisiting the thread referred to put me in mind of the correspondence I had with George Gwilt and John Southern. At the time, one year ago, they were both well and happy Im glad to report but I havent heard back re my Turb...