On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 at 11:52:28, Richard Zidlicky wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
> >On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 12:03:03AM +0100, Roy Wood wrote: >> >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard >> Zidlicky<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> <SNIP> >> >Absolutely not. If you are building hardware you can't simply provide >> >the user with an official SMSQ version in EPROM and a patch on a floppy >> >disk and expect him to apply the patch to the EPROM. >> No need. All versions of SMSQ/E for the Qxx (which is what we are >> talking about here - possibly the GoldFire later but that will have >> flash ROM) are LRESPR'able over the source code on the ROM. That is what >> I do because I have an early version of the ROM. > >it will break when harddisks are accessed in LBA instead of CHS mode. That is interesting. I thought Tony Tebby had always intended that the SMSQ code could be LRESPRed. I suspect the majority of users are now running with LRESPRed SMSQ. >Besides, what is the point to require the user to go through additional >hoops like this? The speed argument mentioned later in this discussion >is tripple nonsense and the authors of it should know better. You need to explain the 'triple' nonsense. > Surely >the version control which was intended as the main benefit of this >license doesn't benefit from an approach like this where user is >supposed to patch his own software. It is not a patch - it is the identical code to the ROM version. -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@<surname>.demon.co.uk http://www.firshman.demon.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG