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Q-emuLator 1.3 for Mac - floppies not recognised

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2018 1:26 pm
by Sparrowhawk
Hi Daniele,

I have v1.3 installed on El Capitan 10.11.6. I am trying to read floppies that I have tested on a BBQL - they work there, but when I insert them into the Mac, choose "Ignore" as per the manual, I get the "not found" error when trying to dir, either with or without the drive name (ie dir flp1_, dir mdv1_, or just dir)

Minerva ROM 1.97, TK2 enabled.

I assign slot 1 to the floppy drive (USB, works fine for reading DOS disks under Mac) and the text changes to <floppy>. Whether I do this before I insert the disk or after I do so, it makes no difference.

I have also tested the disks in Q-EmuLator for Windows 3.2 and they work there, so there is a means for me to transfer data from the disks to my Mac but it's rather long winded.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for any help you can offer,
JY

Re: Q-emuLator 1.3 for Mac - floppies not recognised

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2018 7:20 pm
by Outsoft
The same problem here ;)

Re: Q-emuLator 1.3 for Mac - floppies not recognised

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 10:51 am
by Sparrowhawk
PS. I meant to add that I have also rested with the JS ROM just in case that had a bearing on things, but still the problem persists .

Re: Q-emuLator 1.3 for Mac - floppies not recognised

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 8:26 pm
by Outsoft
Sparrowhawk wrote:PS. I meant to add that I have also rested with the JS ROM just in case that had a bearing on things, but still the problem persists .
The problem is the structure of the new OSX's: there are many limitations for floppy access.

Daniele told me that there isn't a solution from now: I would like to use it too because now I'm passing through a Parallels VM with XP on it for use the Floppy drive on my MAC :-)

Re: Q-emuLator 1.3 for Mac - floppies not recognised

Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 9:51 am
by Sparrowhawk
Thanks - after you posted that I remembered that Apple had indeed killed off floppy support for OS X from version 10.11 (El Capitan) onwards. Grrr! Bad fruity company! Bad!

I don't have a spare XP license to hand, and anyway I suspect that new activations might no longer work anyway as it's out of its support period I think. However, I do have a copy of Windows 2000 Pro running in VirtualBox for when I need to read old files that clients occasionally send me that require some legacy software. Do you know if v1.x of Q-emulator would run on Win2K? I assume v3 would not.

Update: I just checked, I have my 1.x license but I appear to have lost the 1.x installation files. Would somebody be able to provide me with the 1.x installer as it's no longer available on Daniele's site (unless I missed it?) - to be clear, I am not asking for a license, I already have a legitimately bought one, just the actual installation files.

Re: Q-emuLator 1.3 for Mac - floppies not recognised

Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 10:02 am
by Sparrowhawk
Oops. My old license is for v2, not v1. I was reading the details for the Mac version by accident.. Anyway, I don't have the v2 file either, so my request now changes to: can anyone supply me the 2.x installer file?

Re: Q-emuLator 1.3 for Mac - floppies not recognised

Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 10:35 am
by Sparrowhawk
I just tried installing v3.2 on Windows 2000.... it works!!! That is really impressive. Great backwards compatibility there from Daniele.

Unfortunately I get an error when trying to attach a disk drive. (when i click on Microdrive slot, Attach Floppy, A:)

See attached screenshot.

Outsoft, how did you manage it with your VM?

Update: I also added an empty disk attachment to the Floppy Disk controller for force the floppy icon to appear in the VM. This stopped the error, however, I cannot access the real floppy disk, only disk images.

Re: Q-emuLator 1.3 for Mac - floppies not recognised

Posted: Sat May 19, 2018 9:10 pm
by M68008
Hi Sparrowhawk,

since Q-emuLator for OS X was released, Apple has tightened raw access to floppy disks. See http://qemulator.blogspot.com/2014/02/o ... ccess.html for some advice, although the exact procedure varies depending on the version of OS X (for example, you may need to switch to the root user in addition to those steps). An alternative could be to create floppy images with dd.

Not sure about the Win2000 issue, it's probably related to running in the VM.