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Digital preservation / Sinclair QL

Screen Converter 1.31 — Andrea e Paolo Carpi

Floppy IMG derived from archived files. Mount as FLP1 and boot using Minerva 1.98a1 ROM, 640 KiB emulator RAM and Toolkit II 2.32. Converted a QL MODE 8 screen with eight colour bands to MODE 4; completed the conversion and saved the 32,768-byte result, also checked with an independent decoder. Redirected the temporary file from ram8_ to flp1_, preserving the original. Conversion is slow; the emulated CPU was accelerated for this test. Basic functional check in sQLux, not full validation or a physical-hardware test. Audio untested. ROMs are not included.

Screen Converter 1.31 — Andrea e Paolo Carpi — Converted a QL MODE 8 screen with eight colour bands to MODE 4; completed the conversion and saved the 32,768-byte result, also checked with an independent decoder. Redirected the temporary file from ram8_ to flp1_, preserving the original. Conversion is slow; the emulated CPU was accelerated for this test.
Converted a QL MODE 8 screen with eight colour bands to MODE 4; completed the conversion and saved the 32,768-byte result, also checked with an independent decoder. Redirected the temporary file from ram8_ to flp1_, preserving the original. Conversion is slow; the emulated CPU was accelerated for this test. · sQLux
Source: screen-converter-1-31-andrea-e-paolo-carpi.img

screen-converter-1-31-andrea-e-paolo-carpi.img

Derived Working IMG selected by the curator. This is not a public-domain declaration; rights remain with their respective holders.

Download Working IMG720 KB · IMG

Platform
Sinclair QL
SHA-256
c1d939a7084325ac9a2c1047d82dfc26b0d1e9c6a4ee136c5915ac8dfc11e711
File timestamp

Timestamp stored in the original ZIP; timezone unspecified. It does not certify the dump acquisition date.

Media contents (6)
QDOS floppy directory
Original nameTypeByte
convPE_objExecutable25.124
ScrConv_docQL file8.343
ScrConv_txtQL file1.491
conv_obj_originalExecutable18.612
conv_objExecutable18.612
bootQL file193

Names are preserved as recorded on the medium. “≤” indicates allocated space, not the exact file length.