Re: [ql-users] Fw: QL games
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 at 22:53:49, Robert Newson wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Dilwyn Jones wrote: A help request from a user trying to run an old game on QemuLator. Anyone able to help - in the hope he might register his copy if he gets it to work! (I had a brief look and couldn't solve it) Dilwyn Jones - Original Message - From: John Leifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 7:04 AM Subject: QL games Dilwyn Years ago I used to own 2 Sinclair QL's and like a fool I parted with them. My wife used to love playing the Breakout game that was included in the supplied microdrive cartridge. As a gift for her I am trying to set up on my PC a QL emulator running Breakout. I am using the QEmuLator package (currently unregistered until I am surethat it will work). Having downloaded the games (both in the microdrive and floppy version) via your web site I find that when I run Pirate, Gun or Breakout the game crashes out with the following error messages: Pirate At line 400;2 Bad parameter 400 If n=1 THEN EXEC_W mdv1_tre1 Gun At line 410;2 Bad parameter 410 If n=3 THEN EXEC_W mdv1_gun1 Breakout At line 130;2 Not found 130 v=RESPR(6144):LBYTES mdv1_mc,v I have no programming skills and therefore am unable even to begin to resolve the problem. Can you help? Regards John Leifer Looks to me like it can't find 'mdv1_'. I haven't used QEmuLator so can give no help in configuring this...anyone know how to configure where to locate 'mdv1_'? It is pre-configured and flp and mdv are the same. The default is mdv1/flp1 == a: , but this can be changed by the user. The exec_w would give 'not found' if it hadn't read the disk. For the exec_w commands, that looks like the files are found but not execable. I assume they were zipped into one file. You will need to unzip under qemulator otherwise they will lose the exec header. The last one though certainly looks like 'mc' is not there. If there was a disk error, you would get 'bad or changed medium' dir mdv1_ will tell you what is there. -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@surname.co.uk http://www.firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG
Re: [ql-users] Fw: QL games
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 at 12:50:43, Robert Newson wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Tony Firshman wrote: ... The exec_w would give 'not found' if it hadn't read the disk. I realised that this afternoon in the shower (amazing what sleep does to ones thinking) - especially as it had managed to: LRUN mdv1_Breakout Daniele's answer about loosing header info seems more likely... That is exactly what I was saying. You will have to use unzip under qemulator. The external QDOS header was a bad idea (8-)# -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@surname.co.uk http://www.firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG
RE: [ql-users] Fw: QL games
If there is a missing 'mc' file, can you send it to me, as I was told it was complete by the guy who sent it to me, I will then add it to the one on the website. I don't have the QL Games Cartridge. Maybe the guy who sent it to you has also this mc file. Daniele
[ql-users] Fw: QL games
A help request from a user trying to run an old game on QemuLator. Anyone able to help - in the hope he might register his copy if he gets it to work! (I had a brief look and couldn't solve it) Dilwyn Jones - Original Message - From: John Leifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 7:04 AM Subject: QL games Dilwyn Years ago I used to own 2 Sinclair QL's and like a fool I parted with them. My wife used to love playing the Breakout game that was included in the supplied microdrive cartridge. As a gift for her I am trying to set up on my PC a QL emulator running Breakout. I am using the QEmuLator package (currently unregistered until I am sure that it will work). Having downloaded the games (both in the microdrive and floppy version) via your web site I find that when I run Pirate, Gun or Breakout the game crashes out with the following error messages: Pirate At line 400;2 Bad parameter Gun At line 410;2 Bad parameter Breakout At line 130;2 Not found I have no programming skills and therefore am unable even to begin to resolve the problem. Can you help? Regards John Leifer
Re: [ql-users] Fw: QL games
Dilwyn Jones wrote: A help request from a user trying to run an old game on QemuLator. Anyone able to help - in the hope he might register his copy if he gets it to work! (I had a brief look and couldn't solve it) Dilwyn Jones - Original Message - From: John Leifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 7:04 AM Subject: QL games Dilwyn Years ago I used to own 2 Sinclair QL's and like a fool I parted with them. My wife used to love playing the Breakout game that was included in the supplied microdrive cartridge. As a gift for her I am trying to set up on my PC a QL emulator running Breakout. I am using the QEmuLator package (currently unregistered until I am surethat it will work). Having downloaded the games (both in the microdrive and floppy version) via your web site I find that when I run Pirate, Gun or Breakout the game crashes out with the following error messages: Pirate At line 400;2 Bad parameter 400 If n=1 THEN EXEC_W mdv1_tre1 Gun At line 410;2 Bad parameter 410 If n=3 THEN EXEC_W mdv1_gun1 Breakout At line 130;2 Not found 130 v=RESPR(6144):LBYTES mdv1_mc,v I have no programming skills and therefore am unable even to begin to resolve the problem. Can you help? Regards John Leifer Looks to me like it can't find 'mdv1_'. I haven't used QEmuLator so can give no help in configuring this...anyone know how to configure where to locate 'mdv1_'?
RE: [ql-users] Fw: QL games
The games Pirate and Gun fail because John must have unzipped them with the Windows version of unzip instead of unzip for the QL. This causes the executables' QDOS headers to be lost. Breakout fails because it tries to load a file named 'mc', but there is no file with such a name in the mgames.zip archive on Dilwyn's web site. Dilwyn, is one or more of the original files missing from mgames.zip? John, I can send you by email a version of mgames.zip correctly unzipped for the QL. (But breakout seems to be missing.) Daniele
