With the recent, and not so recent discussions on hardware vs emulators, I
decided to update everyone on the status of GoldFire. Especially since my
name was pointedly called :-) and I've gotten a few personal mails about it
too.
Well, folks (yeah, right, now I'm converting into a redneck) the new
Nasta wrote:
>Also, let me give a small
>contribution to the developing hardware vs developing software debate:
>people who have never tried jumping through hoops while bending backwards
>in order to get the parts they need, at reasonable quantity and reasonable
>price, will only understand the n
Peter Graf wrote:
>
> Nasta wrote:
>
Snip
> In the QL scene we have got (in our own style) what the Atari has not.
> Maybe we have the fastest 68K computer there ever was. It is reality and it
> works. And now? Are we proud? Is there a lot of interest? A lot of noise?
> Not yet. I get some posit
Bill wrote:
>> Hard times for QL hard-ware these days.
>
>We hear you
>We sympathise
>We are very grateful
>We buy what we can
>We can't buy the stuff for the rest though.
Thank you very much, Bill! Folks like you are the ones who keep things
moving. I shall not forget your encouragement.
Peter
On 2/11/2001 at 1:49 PM Peter Graf wrote:
>On the Q40 I minimized the availability problems by restricting myself to
>components especially chosen for that reason. But I had a price to pay:
The
>chips are not cheap (because I use 4 of them) and so small that it was
>endless work to squeeze the lo
On 11 Feb 2001, at 13:49, Peter Graf wrote:
> In the QL scene we have got (in our own style) what the Atari has not.
> Maybe we have the fastest 68K computer there ever was. It is reality and it
> works. And now? Are we proud? Is there a lot of interest? A lot of noise?
> Not yet. I get some pos
And so I (as I can't get hand on Q40)
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Objet : Re: [ql-users] Wherefor art thou, GoldFire?
On 11 Feb 2001, at 13:49, Peter Graf wrote:
> In th
: In the QL scene we have got (in our own style) what the Atari has not.
: Maybe we have the fastest 68K computer there ever was. It is reality and
it
: works. And now? Are we proud? Is there a lot of interest? A lot of noise?
: Not yet. I get some positive response, but I also hear voices like: "
Arnould wrote:
>OK, I want a Q60.
A lot of encouragement from France! 500% more than from Germany :-)
Thanks a lot, folks. I'll do my best, but it also depends on problems I
can't solve on my own. Anyway response is always helpful, because I need to
estimate if the number of Q60 requests can al
