Hi all, I'm will be please to help and to open SVN source code repository to anyone who help us to develop this such of features on QL2K. I haven't the knowledge to develop QDOS drivers, but we can do many things to the emulator parts.
So developing floppy support and/or support of QXL WIN file should be great. After this, I'm thinking to handling TCP/IP support. Cheers, Jimmy. -----Message d'origine----- De : ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] De la part de Dilwyn Jones Envoyé : lundi 5 décembre 2011 18:54 À : ql-us...@q-v-d.com Objet : Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: A runtime version of QPC2? > If QPC2 were freely available at no cost the difficulties of the demo > version would, of > course, disappear. How could a free version of QPC2 be possible? > > I would guess that not many copies, if any, of QPC2 will be sold in the > future. That being so, > it might be worth while offering Marcel a sum of money in place of these. > This could be > attractive to Marcel if he reckoned that it was worth more than he would > get from the future > sales. It would, I suggest, be of interest to the present body of QLers in > that it may well attract > new users and give the QL a new lease of life. > > Where would the money come from? > > Again I have a suggestion. It seems that QUANTA have some funds which they > have > considered using on projects. If that is still the case then "freeing" > QPC2 would be a project > to be considered. > > George Approaches to Quanta would depend on proper business case propositions being written and a formal approach made to Quanta. I'm not sure it would involve an amount Quanta could afford - obviously I don't know what QPC2 sales are like at the moment. Alternatives might be: 1. Getting a floppy disk driver written for QLay2 or QL2K, as that is already a free QDOS emulator. 2. There is a chap in the Netherlands (can't remember his real name, he goes under the moniker of Zeccie on QL Forum) who is developing a Java-based QL emulator. I don't know what progress (if any) he's made on this, but it would be a nice easy way of running QL software in a Java-capable browser. 3. When it comes to running older software, a QDOS QL emulator might be a better choice, especially QemuLator as that can run with either QDOS ROMs or SMSQ/E. I wonder if there's any mileage in persuading Daniele to do a runtime only free or low cost QemuLator which ran programs without the ability to save much? QemuLator can run at QL speed (for old games), has a range of memory sizes and so on. And can even run software direct from a QLPAK or Zipped file. Just some ideas plucked out of thin air to extend this discussion... Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
