Seeing all this discussion about possible new hardware etc. and the risks etc.
is why I've come to the conclusion that there's never going to be any new
hardware. It's just not economically viable:
(a) The cost in time and money to design and build would be high.
(b) The size of the market is too
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From: Malcolm Cadman
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Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spare GC or SGC?
Well ... 2 years is a long time in computing ... :-) ... so may be some
optimism that new ideas can take seed.
And in those 2 years 86
In a message dated 15/02/2007 09:40:16 GMT Standard Time,
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Seeing all this discussion about possible new hardware etc. and the risks
etc.
is why I've come to the conclusion that there's never going to be any new
hardware. It's just not economically viable:
(a)
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], gwicks
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Basically you are in an all or nothing situation. You have to first of
design your board on paper and try very hard to make sure it will be a
working board. Once you start to actually build the hardware, then you
cannot talk in terms
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Hi Per
I think you miss the point sometimes.
You said
The QL was never only about hardware for quite a number of enthusiasts,
and therefore it is still going strong in its emulated form. If you want
the best QL platform money can buy,
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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
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
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
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Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:55:39 -, Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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 depends on
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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
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
Yes, I could put the program on my site if required.
--
Dilwyn Jones
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From: Robert Newson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 8:04 PM
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Stephen Usher wrote:
Hi Steve,
...
I find with 2M
I would happily fork out £300-350 for a SDGC
( Super Duper GC ) but it would have to be a
marked jump in performance from SGC and allow
for reasonable graphics. Being a gamer I dream
of QL Quake ( wel it is open C source ! ) running on
a Black box QL.
It is developments like this that kick
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:55:39 -, Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman
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Neil Riley wrote:
Guys,
I would happily fork out £300-350 for a SDGC
( Super Duper GC ) but it would have to be a
marked jump in performance
Hi Per
I think you miss the point sometimes.
You said
The QL was never only about hardware for quite a number of enthusiasts,
and therefore it is still going strong in its emulated form. If you want
the best QL platform money can buy, get QPC2 and stick it in your PC.
For quite a
Le 07-02-12 à 17:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
Hi Per
I think you miss the point sometimes.
You said
The QL was never only about hardware for quite a number of
enthusiasts,
and therefore it is still going strong in its emulated form. If
you want
the best QL platform money can
There are suppliers who make custom computer on the board 68060 systems
pricipally for industry. To my untrained eye the specs look similar to the Qx)
without the ISA slots.
Would take away the fun of designing a new system but might simplify the
problem to interfacing to aurora/ original
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Ah there are lots of things one could put on it.
However I suspect the market does not exist for such a development.
It would be great to be proved wrong.
It need maybe 40 to 50 people willing to commit to spending
Well, here's number 2! Count me in!
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Ah there are lots of things one could put on it.
However I suspect the market does not exist for such a development.
It would be great to be proved wrong.
Actually, on reflection, count me in for two!!!
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Ah there are lots of things one could put on it.
However I suspect the market does not exist for such a development.
It would be great to be
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Malcolm Cadman wrote:
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If a new Card could hit more like the £100 to £200 price range then I
believe there would be an interest, and a market for it.
I doubt if it would be economic even at £200. It is likely to be pretty
expensive to
Robert,
Well, there is another QL + Trump Card owning lurker out here as well...
Rich Mellor wrote:
I would be interested in sourcing a new development of SGCs (must write to
Stuart about this), but I do wonder how many people would still be willing
to pay ?200-?300 for a SGC nowadays.
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich
Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I would be interested in sourcing a new development of SGCs (must write to
Stuart about this), but I do wonder how many people would still be willing
to pay £200-£300 for a SGC nowadays. Certainly with a need to make 50
boards
Stephen Usher wrote:
Hi Steve,
...
I find with 2M on my GC, data and programs just rattle around inside! Even
with the base 128K machine (around 77K(?) free for use) I used to be able to
do/run more than I could with a 540K PC. Or are people becoming so
bloatware expecting that 4M sounds
Hello John from Wales, Sergiusz,
Such an ad. no problem here! But (today) if you find a GC or SGC 'not used'
you will succeed where many others have failed. But, if so, please reveal
your source(s) here! :-)
Happy hunting and happy QLing,
Thank you guys for support! I was thinking
I would be interested in sourcing a new development of SGCs (must write to
Stuart about this), but I do wonder how many people would still be willing
to pay £200-£300 for a SGC nowadays. Certainly with a need to make 50
boards to make it worthwhile, I am not certain there would be a big
Rich Mellor wrote:
I would be interested in sourcing a new development of SGCs (must write to
Stuart about this), but I do wonder how many people would still be willing
to pay £200-£300 for a SGC nowadays. Certainly with a need to make 50
boards to make it worthwhile, I am not certain
Hi
Hello,
I wonder if anyone here has some spare (not used) GC or SGC for sale? My
QL has only superQboard with 512k RAM, which is good, but not enough (ZX
emulator is demanding). I would appreciate if you could drop me an
email. Thank you and sorry for ad.
Jan
If anyone here have
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