On 26/10/02 at 20:18 QL recursos en castellano wrote: >Why we do not use a partition with an emulator of 68000 (and other chips) >and SMSQ/E in PC-style computer or use any PPC actual machine directly?
We cannot use a PPC machine directly, an emulator must be used on these just as on anything else that is not 68k compatible. >QPC for DOS or QLAY (or anothers) can be adapted for use any formated >partition or QL-format partitions. It would be a solution for the future at a low cost. I don't see why anyone would want a solution past QPC then - unless they want something for nothing. Don't get me wrong, I'm not disparaging other emulators. But free emulators must only use free versions of the OS, which in effect means you are stuck with JS or developements from it. Anyone that decides to 'clone' something more modern, like SMSQ, will either be breaking the rules, or putting in so much work that it definitely will not be free - or, if it will, it will come very late (and, considering I've been cooking up GF for ages now, believe me, I know what I'm talking about). For most cases where users want to use a QL as a QL, an emulator is a good solution. For some cases, namely those that may actually generate applications outside the ever shrinking community, this is not true. For instance, I got QPC 1 from Marcel and use it on a laptop because it alowes me to address some of the hardware directly, which I in turn use for various creative things - the latest of which is a reader for diagnostic codes for car electronics. In fact, I have so many PAYING projects that would be a matter of hours with a simple QL 'hardware module' which alowes simple hardware to be programmed in Sbasic, that I would certainly be in a FAR better situation financially, and otherwise, if I had it. The uses for such a simple and small hardware system, even if it is not cheap, are so large that, financially speaking, the QL market is negligible in comparison. To anticipate a question: so why don't I do it? Simple: it requires the OS and software to be modified and licenced to work on such hardware. Or, I could ask for the SMSQ source and just use it without telling anyone - it's hardly a problem of someone going to look insaide various black boxes to see what's really driving them. The problem with that approach is that nothing comes back to the community, and the community is the prime source of software and people who can produce it. It would be only fair to give something back - but then, if you read carefully, maybe you have noticed that there is a job for more than one person in this endevour. Nasta
