P Witte wrote:
> Ive had QPC2v2 a couple of weeks now. Considering the major changes both to
> the emulator and to the OS, its amazing that it all still works ;)
Just too true ;-)
> On the emulator side, the DOS device is a blessing, though it shows
> up our own file system's much-lamented inadequacy. The windowing
> facility is not one I'll use much (it also crashes on my machine
> when changing between windowed and full-screen).
Hmm, that's not really supposed to happen. What graphics card do you
use? Latest drivers? Complete crash or just QPC? Under W2k you say?
> Not all things changed for the better, though: I cant seem to
> multitask properly with Windoze (W2k) anymore.
This means what?
> It also crashes more easily, like "JMON 0" crashes straight out back
> into Windoze.
Couldn't say so. Works just fine.
> Other things I safely used to do before, now zap QPC so hard it
> takes even Windoze a couple of seconds to figure out its gone. Dont
> quite know whats going on yet.. Anyone else with similar
> experiences?
Nobody reported anything like this (but then you didn't report,
either... ;-)
> Its great to view Granny and the kids on the QL, but even on my
> "700Mhz" QPC the kids are catching far too fast up with Granny for
> that to be much fun. You need at least a Q40 for True color and that
> to be viable;
It's true, speed of some things need improvements, but the Q40
shouldn't be much faster in this respect.
> For day-to-day use 16 or 256 colours would have been sufficient.
The catch might be that it is more difficult to implement...
> All in all, QPC2v2 + SMSQ/E really rock! (Might be worth buying a PC just to
> run a copy ;)
:-)
Marcel
