> > Wouldn't the alternatve be to install QPC2? > > You are completely right. But only if you imply that every user is a power > user. No doubt QPC2 is the most powerful software that has ever been written > to emulate an environment that is mostly QDOS compatible. > I just use the QL (or emulation in my spare time, playing around with code > examples from old books etc.). I do not even consider running any "serious" > applications such as text processing etc. within such an environment. My > only purpose is to discover some of the magic of Sir Clive's black box - and > learn some 68K assembler. > Sometimes the behavior of SMSQ/E is somewhat different. For example I > recently tried the job example "real time clock" from the book "QL Advanced > User Guide" by Adrian Dickens. This behaves as expected under QDOS, but > under SMSQ/E you must task-switch to either have that clock or the active > cursor in window#0. Obviously the window handling is somewhat different. > Please so not get me wrong, I do not say the old environment is better, but > it is more compatible to examples from that time. That's why in many cases I > do prefer the QLay - less power but more compatibility for what I am doing. Why not try QemuLator? Like QLay, it does well with QDOS compatibility and will even run SMSQ-E (Gold Car dversion) if you want it. And you can select which QDOS ROM image you use (JM, JS, MG, AMinerva and their international equivalents all work) as well as memory configuration and speed levels if you buy the full evrsion, which is still cheaper than QPC2.
QemuLator provides and excellent halfway house between QLay and QPC2! -- Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
