For instance, AFAIK there's no Linux version of Q-Emulator. So
Ubuntu users can run a virtualized Windows inside VMWare/Virtual
Box, and from inside the guest OS, install and run Q-Emulator.
I think uQLx (a linux QL emulator) was developed from QemuLator
sources originally, although from what little I know of them, there
the similarities probably end. Plus I think it's a while since uQLx
was last updated.
Surprisingly, there were also versions derived from uQLx which were
then ported to run in Windows and Mac environments. The Win-uQLX ran
in Cygwin environment on a Windows machine. I think it was developed
by either Peter Graf or Phoebus Dokos (or possibly both of them).
Then James Weatherley ported a version to Mac OS - can't remember if
it was for OSX or the original Mac OS'es.
Both were available from Phoebus's website. Since Phoebus's pages
disappeared, the emulators are on my emulators page, but I know little
or nothing about them.
It's interesting to see all the talk of using such-and-such a QL
emulator in such and such an emulating or virtual OS within another
OS. I used to marvel at (nowadays) routine things like DOS emulation
on a QL, or Darren Branagh doing things like running a Spectrum
emulator within a QL emulator running on a PC. I'm not sure he ever
went as far as to have Windows in a Linux virtual system (or something
like WINE) in turn running a QL emulator in turn running a spectrum
emulator in turn running a zx81 emulator, but I'm sure it's the kind
of thing he'd have tried for the hell of it if he'd set his mind to
it! (Hastily dons protective suit for when Darren reads this).
If there's a Linux supported QL emulator, it would be possible to
build a "portable" or "pen" version of the QL, by configuring a
pendrive to boot a tiny Linux kernel, followed by the QL emulator
itself.
I regularly use my QL On A Stick on Windows systems of course - once
I'd figured out how to do it originally it turned out to be quite
straightforward to get going. I don't know enough about Linux systems
to produce such a "pen QL" using uQLx on a minimal Linux set up,
although it might be an interesting exercise. Potentially quite useful
for those who avoid Windows systems where possible.
Dilwyn Jones
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