On 10 Apr 2006, at 21:27, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Good luck with your Goldfire quest, Tarquin. > > One thing which was obvious at this weekend's Quanta meeting in > Manchester was the prevailing view that native QL hardware will play > less and less of a part in our QLing lives in the future. Almost > everyone seemed to > be of the opinion that emulators would be the likely (if less > desirable) way forward, because of cost, the ability to be > reprogrammed to make use of newer features and the ability to run on > the user's choice of hardware platforms. > > I admire Tarquin's quest to see Goldfire become reality, indeed I hope > it does. I fear though, that sadly there are too many people like me > who are content with running QL emulators on other platforms. > > It would be nice to hear what others think of this viewpoint!
When I first heard about the Goldfire project I was interested but saw that I would have to amend GWASS so that it would run on the new machine and so that it would produce code for the new instructions involved. It would (will?) be quite a task. Now that there is a real prospect of QPC2 being upgraded to contain 68020+ instructions, as I showed in a prototype in Manchester, I am reasonably happy to use an emulator rather than hardware in the future. George _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
