Thanks Dilwyn
Malcolm
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Well there is the MESS emulator found at:
http://www.mess.org/
Its seems highly unstable at the moment, but it does aim to emulate
all the hardware correctly.
Malcolm
Well, I've got so far with this - here's what I found so far, in case
anyone else wants to try this ql emulator (well, ql is one of huge
number of systems it emulates - over 250 in all!).
MESS stands for Multiple Emulator Super System, which is based in turn
on MAME, Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, and uses the same software
engine, but is for home computers and video game consoles rather than
arcade game systems.
1. Download and unzip the binaries for MESS from www.mess.org and
unzip to Windows drive C:\ (may create folder like mess0125b).
2. Create a folder called "roms" inside this folder, if it doesn't
exist already.
3. Use Google to search for "mess"+"bios"+"ql". This includes ROM
image, IPC image etc, which aren't part of the package.
4. Save the ql.zip file in the ROMS folder. Note: it can stay zipped -
MESS will handle it zipped.
5. Easiest way now is to run the QL from the MESSUI.EXE GUI and scroll
down to QL, double click on this. All being well, the QL will now start.
6. You may find it's full screen and ESC doesn't let you quit from it,
or you can't get the commands toolbars with TAB. If so, CTRL ALT DEL
and end the mess task. Go back to MESSUI.EXE andchoose the Options
menu, then Default System Options, then the Miscellaneous tab and
check the "Use new UI" chechbox. There's also options to run
maximised, run in a window and many other options.
7. It offers 5 devices - MDV1, MDV2, SER1, SER2 and cartridge. Not got
this far yet, but the MDV files options looks for files ending with
.MDV which I'm not sure about yet. Possibly they are snapshot files,
or possibly like QLay .MDV files? At this point I've got stuck and all
I've been able to do is type in a few lines of superbasic.
So it looks like we have one more QL emulator for Windows!
Dilwyn Jones
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