It would be great to be able to fit a PC in a QL case, with a 100%
compatible QL emulator running on it and able to access the microdrives (or
better 1 mdv and a memory card reader in the right slot) and QL keyboard,
plus plenty of USB ports on the back for floppy disks, printers and other
devices.
On 13 Feb 2007, at 22:06, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
>
> But if a 'Super QL' were made to fit the original case, it would of
> course have nostalgia value, as the original QL case design was one of
> its great features.
If a SuperQL was made as a new motherboard, but incorporating
connectors for MDV,
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> But if a 'Super QL' were made to fit the original case, it would of
> course have nostalgia value, as the original QL case design was one of
> its great features.
>
>
Absolutely . . . are there certainly seems a market for nostalgia at the
moment . . .
There's a Dutch c
Peter Graf wrote:
> I wonder if the QL motherboard needs to stay to keep the thing
> subjectively attractive. Or could the QL be filled with completely
> new
> life, just keeping the black case?
I think that an Aurora card can in principle be built into a QL case,
but it's not easy. Probably easier
In a message dated 13/02/2007 19:33:40 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
If your paper design proves to work in practice, fine. If it doesn't you may
be able to get it to work by a bit of tweaking. You can also be in a
situation in which you get now return whatsoever on the cap
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From: "P Witte" <>
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Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spare GC or SGC?
As a final thought Quanta could stimulate this by making a prize (£s
> X-prize) for the first team to say design and make a prototype pr
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich
Mellor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:55:39 -, Malcolm Cadman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>> Yes, but programs like QWord show that the OS can now do good graphics
>> ... it just needs another platform to run on, at present.
>>
>
>That
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, extdgl42 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Interesting; reminds me I was just on Amazon reading about their
>history of Commodore. Apple, IBM, M$ et al survived. Commodore was one
>of the main players early in personal computing, and in fact is said
>there to have be
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
extdgl42 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Now: "Who knows what secret passages & shadows lie in the hearts of QLs".
I guess that is what we usually get around to doing on this list ...
some of the time ... :-)
>Seeing all the different systems, including OSs, is pa
>>As an example of variety, I'll mention my confuser (computer :-)
>>room:
>>Three Macs (two of them laptops), two PCs (One 733, the other
>>133[!], a
>>custom build long ago), and several QLs (many still in styrofoam
>>boxes;
>>one somewhat working). Yes, internet connectivity for four of the
>>ab
Alain Hauoi wrote:
> We have probably need to implement a 2 layers drivers scheme. A
> general low
> level driver managing communication protocol and a device driver
> over this
> for each kind of periperal/device. I think a scheme like one
> implemented by
> T Godefroy for ATAPI protocol (low le
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Rick Chagouri-Brindle wrote:
>
>
>> I think so too . . . looking at it objectively if you replace too much
>> of the original QL you are no longer really using the QL, but the fact
>> that it is still in the black box is subjectively attractive.
>>
>
> I wonde
Rick Chagouri-Brindle wrote:
> I think so too . . . looking at it objectively if you replace too much
> of the original QL you are no longer really using the QL, but the fact
> that it is still in the black box is subjectively attractive.
I wonder if the QL motherboard needs to stay to keep the
>So MY ideal machine would be one that is capable of using the full
>potential of SMSQ/PEv2 (only QPC2 and Qx0 can do that now, both Aurora/SGC
>and QXL suffer from lack of memory) and can be fitted in a black box (or
>my MaxiQL or MinisQL).
>QL Today v10i2 had an article of the June 2005 Ein
Op Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:50:25 +0100 schreef Tony Firshman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I think is is just nostalgia for the first experience.
> For the people who liked the original black box, the add-ons to that are
> attractive, and one feels one is still using the original.
>
The design of the Sinc
Instead of building new hardware, reuse very common old hardware which is
easy to find on places such as eBay... i.e. Amiga 1200 etc.
> Yes I'm agree, this sound OK. But I searching an Amiga 1200 with a french
keyboard, and it's difficult to find one.
Now, if someone could write a version of QDO
>
> I think is is just nostalgia for the first experience.
> For the people who liked the original black box, the add-ons to that are
> attractive, and one feels one is still using the original.
>
> Tony
I think so too . . . looking at it objectively if you replace too much
of the original QL you
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> Hi,
>
> there has always been a number of QL folks who want native hardware, but
> weren't satisfied with the concept of the Q60. They kept looking for a
> "Super Duper Gold Card". I often tried to understand what they rea
Hi,
there has always been a number of QL folks who want native hardware, but
weren't satisfied with the concept of the Q60. They kept looking for a
"Super Duper Gold Card". I often tried to understand what they really have
in mind but failed. Some of them seem on this list now, maybe my curiosi
I've just had a thought...
Instead of building new hardware, reuse very common old hardware which is easy
to find on places such as eBay... i.e. Amiga 1200 etc.
Now, if someone could write a version of QDOS etc. for that platform which
could be burned onto ROM (the Amiga ROMs are easy to access a
Yours answers are interesting, and Per as made an article that can teach
simply on how it's possible to make a virus.
"See www.witteware.com/knoware : 2007/02/12 Addition | Virus - Article and
listing: Anatomy of a virus. New."
Now I will consider that is possible to get viruses on QL, but at thi
On 12 Feb 2007, at 21:20, P Witte wrote:
>
> Wot SMSQ/E license issue? The Qx0 comes with a version of Qdos
> included.
> You could download a copy of the latest SMSQ/E sources and use Qdos to
> assemble your very own version of SMSQ/E. The Registrar has gone to a
> lot of trouble to make this
On 12 Feb 2007, at 12:13, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> QL jobs have a JMP.L job_start_address instruction in the first few
> bytes, to jump past the $4AFB flag and job name. This could in theory
> (never tried this part) be hacked to jump to an extra bit of code
> tacked onto the end of a program to run
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 2. like previous QL hardware efforts that started this discussion the QPC2
> software is a one man show. If Marcel loses interest QPC2 is dead.
Just one quick point: if I completely lose interest I plan to release
QPC2 in the wild.
By the way, new release for Vista is
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