twh wrote:
Howdy *.*!
Just got my new flash cart and it rocks!! yeah!
but here are a few comments: The unix/linux installation is much harder than the windows version. at the end, i got it working with several "downgrades" (libc4 !!! argh!!!) for the rusty linux port of tasm. Also the perl script needed an additional package called "libcompress-zlib-perl", but it can be easy installed by using debain apt-get.
I think, these facts could be mentioned in the manual. Also finding the linux- tasm is not easy, because the website of the developers is down!!
Do you have a link to the old free version of linux TASM? I would like to port it to a newer, free assembler but I cant find one compatible with TASM syntax.
I will add information about the Compress::Zlib module. I thought it was installed as part of the base Perl package, but perhaps it comes with the CPAN modules.
twh wrote:
however, the first thing I tried to upload to the cart was "Zork I". I got the image form TXG's server, everything went fine, except that I had to switch to the standard xl/xe operating systems. since, qmeg is much better than every other os, it's rather annoyoing to turn it off, when using the flash cart.
steven, could you check this bug? is it possible to "soft patch" the cart, or is it something to the internal construction of the cart?
The --diskpacker carts patch the OS so there has to be a seperate patch set for different OS roms. I will load up QMEG and see if I can add a patch set for it to the --diskpacker driver.
Once there is a correct OS patch set for QMEG a new programming image can be built and the cartridge re-programmed.
Steve