On 15 Mar 2011, at 03:33, Dave Park wrote:
If the Goldfire were still possible today, it would be fantastic, but I
suspect the Coldfire SoC is no longer available.
I saw a manual for the Coldfire instructions and these can be assembled by
GWASS.
George
gdgqler wrote, on 15/03/2011 10:30:
On 15 Mar 2011, at 03:33, Dave Park wrote:
If the Goldfire were still possible today, it would be fantastic, but I
suspect the Coldfire SoC is no longer available.
I saw a manual for the Coldfire instructions and these can be assembled by
GWASS.
It
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 6:06 AM, Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk wrote:
gdgqler wrote, on 15/03/2011 10:30:
On 15 Mar 2011, at 03:33, Dave Park wrote:
If the Goldfire were still possible today, it would be fantastic, but I
suspect the Coldfire SoC is no longer available.
I saw a
Geoff Wicks wrote:
From then on the project faded from view.
Can it be revived? I know very little about hardware, but I sense
there is a new interest in native hardware and some projects that
people thought would never come now seem feasible. It is for you
hardware specialists to determine
That's a bit of a QLOAC Dagger statement :-)
Lee
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To clarify what I mean I'll call it QL On A Chip or two.
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Dilwyn Jones
dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.ukwrote:
Geoff Wicks wrote:
From then on the project faded from view.
Can it be revived? I know very little about hardware, but I sense there is
a new interest in native hardware and some projects that people thought
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Geoff Wicks gtwi...@btinternet.comwrote:
Sometime between 1998 and 2004 Nasta gave a talk at a North American show
and I believe this is how Dave came into contact with him.
I never met him in person, but we became good online friends. I met him
through
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Dave Park plasticu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Dilwyn Jones
dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.ukwrote:
Geoff Wicks wrote:
From then on the project faded from view.
Can it be revived? I know very little about hardware, but I sense there is
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
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Marcel Kilgus ql-us...@mail.kilgus.netwrote:
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
Wireless computer keyboards range from £9.99 to £99.9 some even with built in
trackpads and rollerball (or dead mice as I like to call them. Its the form
over function debate again, while nice to have a retro feel, its got to
perform extremely well. For me the QL was the whole thing, the case
Dave Park wrote:
The catch is that the QL is much lower powered in terms of heat and current
demands, and these PC-type boards do not fit that power envelope - therefore
they can't be used embedded very easily.
This board uses less than 20 Watts when idle (still less than 40 Watts
in worst
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Marcel Kilgus ql-us...@mail.kilgus.netwrote:
Dave Park wrote:
The catch is that the QL is much lower powered in terms of heat and
current
demands, and these PC-type boards do not fit that power envelope -
therefore
they can't be used embedded very easily.
In message A5490AD5E2BE4271A8349E309D7508A2@mine5e8ac60903, Lee
Privett lee.priv...@gmail.com writes
Hi,
QLC2 ... wouldn't be a bad name, for a new QL based computer/device.
That's a bit of a QLOAC Dagger statement :-)
Lee
- Back to the QL-
Dilwyn Said
To clarify what I mean I'll call
All,
when listening to all this (admittedly interesting) talks about possible
revival of quasi-native QL hardware, the following questions should be
answered:
What is native QL hardware
what did it make special 25 years ago
what of this would we still want/need today
1. Had a Motorola 68k
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