On 03/08/2011 10:42, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
In the latest issue of gamesTM, page 20, there is an article on the
Raspberry Pi which is basically a £20 pc.
If it comes with Linux, one of the Linux QL emulators (uQLx, QLay for
Linux) with it... bingo, a £20 QL.
If it is at the heart of it a PC, it might not be too long before
somebody finds a way to put Windows on it, even though that would mean
Windows would be on an unsupported platform and Windows would cost
more than the "PC" it ran on!
Alternatively, if the Linux on it was capable of supporting WINE or
some such "Windows" environment, and the processor is up to it, it
might open up possibilities for QemuLator, QPC2 and QL2K for example.
In this case, just think, a £20 system could emulate all our favourite
1980s home computers!
Dilwyn Jones
I think from the later info this is a $20 computer £15 to us. There
is also some info that WINE isn't an emulator but DOSBOX might be useable.
I believe someone from the QL community has already had contact with
them about getting SBASIC or similar on. Portable Apps is a way of
running prograns without installing on the host machine and slowing the
machine down with installed programmes used infrequently.
Bryan H
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