Dave Park wrote: > Indeed an FPGA implementation of an m68k chip, or emulation of an n68k on > some other lightweight chip are the only two economically sensible > solutions.
Actually, the cheapest solution would be to buy something like this http://mini-box.de/fr/catalog/il/1261 and use a thin software layer to emulate 68k code. 60 EUR for a complete board with 1,8Ghz and everything but a kitchen sink already on board can hardly be beaten... I imagine however that many would say this does not count as real QL hardware, even though that as a user the only part where one could notice that it's PC hardware is the BIOS bootup. But the actual main problem with this solution is that it's too modern. The graphics chip alone is so advanced that I would not dare programming it without at least VESA-Bios support. Much of this is probably true for the other devices, too. In the end one might even need a small Linux layer to reign in the hardware, but this would then really make it just a "PC with an emulator on top". Marcel _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
