sinclair QL

[wario17]

Bonjour,
Comment transférer le contenue d'une microdrive (fonctionnelle) vers une disquette 3"5 ?

Merci pour vos réponses,

j.c.

[RWAP]

The easiest way is to find a QL disk interface and a 3.5" disk drive which can be used with the Sinclair QL.

I have a couple of PCML Q+Disk Interfaces (which include extra memory also) for £30 each plus postage.

You then need a disk drive - I have cased external dual disk drives (complete with power supply and cable to the QL) for £90 each plus postage (about £30 to France). Ideally you want a DD disk drive, and note that you cannot use a PC disk drive and cable out of the box - you have to first of all use a straight (untwisted) cable and see if you can set up the floppy disk drive as DS0 (master) - PC drives are shipped with them set to DS1 (slave) which will not work.

Some disk drives have a jumper to allow you to switch from DS0 to DS1, or a solder pad, but the majority have nothing to help here. In that case, you can sometimes get away with swapping pins 10 and 12 on the floppy disk drive cable.

Another alternative is to use the HxC floppy disk emulator - see http://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/detail ... es%29-1140

This allows you to save to a disk image on an SD memory card instead.

Once you have the hardware sorted, you will need to enable Toolkit II or disk commands, with TK2_EXT or FLP_EXT (depending on your hardware).

Then enter the command:

WCOPY mdv1_ TO flp1_

This will copy the files across.

If you want the files to run from disk, you then have a couple of options:
FLP_USE mdv

will allow the files to run as they are (unless they are copy protected in which case you may still need the original microdrive cartridge).

or, use an Editor (such as The Editor by Digital Precision) to change all references in the files from mdv1_ (or mdv2_) to flp1_



An even better way of transferring files (once you have the hardware sorted out), is dependent on having either a Trump Card / Gold Card / Super Gold Card interface with your QL, OR if you do not have one of these, then the RAM disk supplied with QRAM.

This allows you to make a fast sector copy of the microdrive cartridges to RAM disk, with
FORMAT ram1_mdv1

Corrupt files are marked with an asterisk at the end ( *), so you know which are problem files. You can then try to recover the problem files by either using FORMAT ram2_mdv2, or trying to find a backup cartridge.

Once you have all the files in the ram disk, then use
WCOPY ram1_ TO flp1_

as above.