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 and replace) that would give the community an easy route for an upgrade without a massive cost for the hardware. (The Amiga 1200 has a built-in IDE interface and an internal floppy drive. It also has reasonable 2D graphics performance, ample for the QL-like display. Oh, and much of the original AmigaDOS was written by Metacomco in BCPL on Sinclair QLs. :-) Maybe it's pay-back time?) The alternative to replacing just the ROMs would be a "trap-door" add in card.. but that raises the ugly head of hardware development. The big problem with that approach, again, is driver development. However, from what I understand, there's a lot of documentation for the Amiga hardware so it's shouldn't be as bad as it might otherwise be. What do you think? Steve -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nostalgia isn't as good as it used to be. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
