I am reading this discussion with great interest, but I don't use mdv since age neither I have any working cartridge to test.
I installed QL-SD on my 2 working QL and mainly booting in SMSQ/E.
Fabrizio
martyn_hill wrote:Hi again Tobi and Martin
All good points.
Worth taking a step back for a moment.
The simple fact that no one seems to have reported such an issue running Minerva (after v1.66 at least) on SGC (and possibly GC - according to Marcel's earlier findings) could be that its not such a common setup and perhaps that most (S)GC owners:
a) are running old-school QDOS (JS/MG, or Minerva upto 1.66 etc) or
b) are immediately booting in to SMSQ/E from FLP to take full advantage of their shiny, fast QL and that the issue just isn't present in SMSQ (though the source for the MDV Scatter-load appears to be identical between both Min v1.98 and the equivalent SMSQ/E routines for (S)GC) or
c) just don't play with MDVs any longer - and who could blame them? (I still love the little beasts, but I'm weird...)
From my own perspective, its more 'because its there' that I'll continue to explore the issue - I've always been better at finding fault in other's work than actually developing something new myself
I'll report back again in due course, in case anyone else cares enough to keep reading