QL Emulation in Mess

Discussion and advice about emulating the QL on other machines.
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prime
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QL Emulation in Mess

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Hi all,

After hacking disk support into Mess a couple of years back, which actually made it mostly usable, though it still doesn't support microdrives :(

I've now (hopefully) fixed the IPC communication code so that making a sound doesn't crash the machine, which makes it more usable. It works well enough that I can play QL Cavern which I couldn't before.

I'll submit the patches on the MAME / MESS development list so they should be in the next point release.

Cheers.

Phill.


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And my latest working version has QIMI support so you can use the pointer environment with a mouse :)

Cheers.

Phill.


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prime wrote:And my latest working version has QIMI support so you can use the pointer environment with a mouse :)

Cheers.

Phill.
Great news. I keep meaning to go back to try the MESS QL emulator after the work you've put into it the last couple of years... if only I had the time!


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after 8 years i think it's not a problem bringing this thread to live back again... xD

i'm actually trying to run QL emulation on mame/mess - it seems to run close to fine from what i expected

in the mame(mess file manager, we find magtape1 (magt1), magtape2 (magt2), and cartridge (cart) - i though that was supposed magt would open .mdv files, but it didn't recognize any from what i tried - i also have no idea which rom files could be tried as cart

i don't know if anyone here have tried ql emulation mame/mess since then


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nitrofurano wrote:after 8 years i think it's not a problem bringing this thread to live back again... xD

i'm actually trying to run QL emulation on mame/mess - it seems to run close to fine from what i expected

in the mame(mess file manager, we find magtape1 (magt1), magtape2 (magt2), and cartridge (cart) - i though that was supposed magt would open .mdv files, but it didn't recognize any from what i tried - i also have no idea which rom files could be tried as cart

i don't know if anyone here have tried ql emulation mame/mess since then
MDV support is completely missing.

Cart is things like the TK2 rom.

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