David Tubbs wrote:Above was stated what I needed to achieve.
The answer to the question, as generic as you posted it, is so complex that I didn't even try to explain it. Besides the fact that it's off topic.
[SuperQXL]If the latter were the option then it should have the facility to use any PC peripheral through the existing Windows drivers and use the same filing system as the host, yes a big break and no old software would carry over (Tho' I do remember a SOS Xchange). There is probably some bright spark out there that could create a buffer through which any prior SW's IO calls could be translated. Being like QXL it would run a 68x chip for all those programmers familiarity. And Superbasic for the lesser folk like self.
I do think that market is pretty well satisfied by QPC.
Marcel
To this effect Marcel is absolutely right... and if one wants 100% compatibility with old QL software there's always uQLx, Q-emuLator and Qlay
Hardware based solutions hosted on a PC only make sense if that is a strictly development platform for a stand-alone device later....
Plus what's the point? QPC would be about 1000 times cheaper :-) (Plus it supports everything a Super QXL would support.. (and then some)
The *only* potential other use for such a card would be a PC free of the emulation overhead, however this would be so specialised that it isn't even worth mentioning IMHO
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