Adrian, Please do not be offended.
We are developing revised hardware and we want to use a known working driver following the "only change one thing at a time" rule. Once we have the hardware 100%, we want to make some driver revisions to do with initializing devices. We have as a design goal that the new IDE interface is 100% software compatible with the original QubIDE, so the new driver can be applied to original QubIDEs also. Once that is done, those changes can be applied to either driver. At this time, QubIDE has an extremely mature and tested driver. The QL-SD driver contains a lot of new code. We're being conservative. When QL-SD is in a lot of peoples' hands, we'll see how it handles the different needs and systems it's in. Then, we'll happily consider it. Dave On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Adrian Ives <adr...@acanthis.co.uk> wrote: > I have said this so many times that I am getting really tired of the > repetition! > > The QL-SD driver was derived from QUBIDE. It was turned inside-out to > implement replaceable hardware interface routines. It's all there. Don't > reinvent the wheel again! Just look at the hw_xxx routines in the QL-SD > source code and you can see how it's done. > > Peter is the man who has custody of the current source, I believe. I do > not. > > -----Original Message----- > From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com > [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Dave Park > Sent: 02 February 2014 19:54 > To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com > Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QubIDE II Source Code > > Rich, > > One of the things we want to change is how drives are detected and > initialized. > > If anyone would like to do this work with us and is familiar, comfortable > and skilled at producing ROM images from the code provided, please get in > touch with me off-list. Work would be compensated. > > Dave > > > On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Rich Mellor (RWAP) > <r...@rwapservices.co.uk>wrote: > > > Just be careful with the last ROMs - not sure if it was an error with > > the ROM code, or the utilities which went with them - I recall that > > the disk could be corrupted if you used the recycle bin facility !! > > > > I also had problems that if the QL had not been switched on for a > > while, QubIDE would no longer recognise the drive... > > > > Rich > > www.rwapsoftware.co.uk > > www.sellmyretro.com > > > > > > > > > On February 2, 2014 at 7:03 PM Dave Park <d...@sinclairql.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hehe > > > > > > I don't know how I missed that! Actually, I do! I have two > > > identically named folders, and looked in the same one twice - the wrong > one! > > > > > > Thanks Marcel! > > > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Marcel Kilgus > > > <ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net>wrote: > > > > > > > Dave Park wrote: > > > > > We would like to make further improvements, but unfortunately we > > > > > do > > not > > > > > have the source of the QubIDE II ROMs. If anyone out there has > > > > > the > > > > source, > > > > > we'd be grateful for a copy. > > > > > > > > Google "qubide source" and voila: > > > > > > > > http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/qlrom/qubide-gpl.zip > > > > > > > > Not that difficult it turns out ;-) > > > > > > > > Cheers, Marcel > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > QL-Users Mailing List > > > > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Dave Park > > > Sandy Electronics, LLC > > > d...@sinclairql.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > > QL-Users Mailing List > > > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > > Rich Mellor > > RWAP Software > > www.rwapsoftware.co.uk > > www.sellmyretro.com > > _______________________________________________ > > QL-Users Mailing List > > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > > > > > > -- > Dave Park > Sandy Electronics, LLC > d...@sinclairql.com > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > -- Dave Park Sandy Electronics, LLC d...@sinclairql.com _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
