Hi Urs,
Thank you for this idea. I have managed to redo the boot file in easy
stages this morning and at 1235 had a working QPC2 the way I am used to
which is great. I have several errors of copying but these have been
dealt with and I am happy.
Thank you again
Peter
On 17.06.2016 07:05, Urs Koenig (QL) wrote:
Peter Fox wrote:
What I have managed to do is find a much better boot file which
solve all my
problems provided that I can get it into QPC2 which is not working
at the
moment and without a floppy drive available.
Have you any ideas?
Hi Peter,
I have an easy way for you at hand:
Download QL/E, a well maintained and ready to run QPC2 configuration
with zero setup work to do.
http://www.sinclairql.net/repository.html#QLE
It's just a 1-2-3 and you're ready:
1. Unzip it to your preferred location (e.g. your user profiles
document folder where you have full read-write access).
2. Well zero configuration only if you want to use QL/E without your
QXL.win. In your case start the QPC2.exe in the qle folder and make
sure you hold the SHIFT key when starting QPC2.exe otherwise yu will
not get the QPC2 config dialog.
3. Open the "Devices" form and configure WIN2 to the full
path-filename of your personal QXL.win file (e.g. D:\DATA\QXL.win)
and
close the form using "OK".
Now you're ready, start the QL emulation using "OK" on QPC2's main
form.
The QL/E environment boots and you get a desktop with many utilities
available. Use your preferred ones (QPAC2 Files, MasterSpy, SBASIC,
you name it) to review and edit your personal BOOT file which is on
WIN2_.
Whenever you feel ready exit QPC2 and restart it like explained in
step 2. Then open the "Devices" form and configure WIN1 to the full
path-filename of your personal QXL.win file (e.g. D:\DATA\QXL.win)
and
close the form using "OK". Now your (edited) QXL.win is mounted as
WIN1.
Start the QL emulation using "OK" on QPC2's main form and your
QXL.win BOOTs. If the boot process still fails, go back to step 2.
If all is well, you can save QPC2's device configuration using the
"Save" button on QPC2's main form.
Good luck!
QL forever!
Cheers,
Urs
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