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My mouse was not recognised but Ctrl+C did the trick indeed. Ha, interesting. I've seen the problem of the mouse not waking up for a long time on some emulators, but it worked every time I tried on MiSTer. After your post I tried some stuff again and finally realized its connected to the CPU speed. On Full you have to move the mouse quite very muc...

Usually using a mouse... if none is available, switch jobs using Ctrl+C. When the mouse pointer is visible you can also use the cursor keys to move it.

.WIN is the native format for most emulators. I already posted a description for QPC here: https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?p=10603#p10603 The "DOS" Device can be used to access the PC drives. When you use my QPCDemo.win some filetransfer and ZIP tools are already included. Try CueShell for example. Files can be moved there by drag'n'...

Alkadian wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:38 amAll sorted, I have changed the RAM settings form the OSD Menu! Off to enjoy Space Invaders. I love it [/b]

Yes, like all native QL device drivers the SD driver must hold the FAT in RAM. My demo disc is much too big for it the 128KB setting. Only MDV images or very small SD images (<5MB) are usable there. Enjoy!

lroby74 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 9:22 am It's wonderfull!! I love QL!!
But support to .FLP (3.5" floppy disks) files?

Floppy images are pretty uncommon in the QL world and with the SD driver you get something much better. I don't quite see the use-case?

Cheers, Marcel

I once again integrated the upstream changes and released a small update at https://www.kilgus.net/ql/mister/

But even better news, I finally decided that it's time to merge the two development branches again, which Sorgelig gladly approved this morning. So all future standard MiSTer releases will be based on this version

Are there even any freely available 68040 or 68060 cores?

There's an updated core at https://www.kilgus.net/ql/mister/ that includes an improved QL speed mode (curtesy of Daniele Terdina of QemuLator fame) and tracks the upstream changes once again. Also SMSQ/E has been updated to v3.37 (now integrated in a .WIN file for easy mounting, must use 4096KB memory mode!). I haven't had much time to play with it...

Hi, I'm trying to get this core to work on my MiSTer. So far I just get a black screen and I'm a bit lost. First of all I output to a 15khz CRT TV via Direct Video. Not sure if this is supported? No idea either, but given your experience I'd say not. Or your monitor cannot cope with the signal that comes out. Either way, you'll probably have more ...

danielb wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 3:50 pmAnyway, the core is really, really good now. Above all, it seems to be rock solid. In several hours of running, I haven't had a single glitch or crash.

Congratulations Marcel on a fine piece of work

Cool, thanks for the feedback

Besides that, I've noticed that it doesn't seem to give an error (as I would expect if it was write protected) but it also doesn't seem to be recording anything to the in-memory image. The directory shows the file for as long as it's cached, but the contents are not there, and if the directory is reloaded, the file is missing. I think this behavio...

Yes, MDV images are loaded into memory and then repeatedly played back in an endless loop. There is no mechanism to save changes back to the image.

So, I made a few more changes. For once, I fixed the MDV timings. I'm sure I had done this at one time but it somehow got lost again along the way. Also, I reworked the internal clocks and moved the IPC co-processor to the main clock domain. My hope is that this fixes the keyboard lockups. Didn't have time to test it for long, but so far I've had n...

Thanks! Just to be sure, isn't that just a concatenation? I can do that easily on Linux. Yes, if your OS ROM is exactly 48kb long. If not, then no. OK, so I have the files, and now I know I can use QPC to do the transfer. Which leaves me with just one problem: how do I create a fresh, formatted .WIN image on Linux (or with Wine)? If QPC is running...

danielb wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 6:22 pm From the feel of it, I'd say it's a problem with the keyboard driver.

Might be the the very flimsy link between CPU and 8049 co-processor getting out of sync. But generally difficult to debug

So I tried your core, which brings much more stability and permanent storage through the Winchester (win1_) devices. It works very well; however, it also breaks microdrive support: I can no longer access mdv1_ after loading a microdrive. OK, interesting. I haven't played with MiSTer for a long time and microdrives is not something I normally use, ...

Thanks Daniel.

The last-minute source code reorganizations broke my "GoldCard" code. I've uploaded a new version to my page. Also, the OS can now be changed through the OSD menu, that was something that I had already done but for some reason not committed.

Not sure why the RBF from January was included in the last commit. The latest version is on the website.

Two years ago I set out to improve the QL core. Despite this being my first FPGA project I got pretty far but then had some problems and eventually didn't have time anymore to finished everything I wanted to do. So I at least created a stable version and put it online a few months ago at https://www.kilgus.net/ql/mister/ . Wanted to release the sou...