Hi, since the turn of the century, I invested a lot of time into some QL hardware and software projects. Except the Q60 Graphics Card, all of them actually worked, and have been shown to a few friends.
I didn't have the motivation to finish them. For a long time, the reason was that I saw the requirement for a free QL operating system first. I spent time on that area, trying to help others who had a similar goal. But we did noch achieve a breakthrough, and my other projects suffered. Life has changed, time has become even shorter nowadays. It is absolutely unrealistic that all my projects can be released someday. But maybe I can rescue at least *one* of them, before all work is lost forever. Everything related to my Coldfire based Q60 successor makes no sense anymore. The point was high speed, but todays PCs are so fast that emulation easily beats it. Here are those projects which might still have relevance: * QLwIP: QL native TCP/IP support, and some applications for it like email, webserver, browser etc. * QLPUI: A modern GUI for QDOS, with themes and proportional fonts. Runs on native hardware and on emulators. A simple demo can be found at http://terdina.net/ql/software.html * Q60 Graphics Card: Flatscreen monitor support and other improvements for the Q60 * QLMMC: An SD/MMC card adaptor for the parallel port of Q60 and SuperGoldCard, easy to plug in, but speed only similar to floppy * QLSD: Internal SDHC card "harddisk" for the original QL, using the microdrive slots * Q68: Native QL computer on a 8x10 cm board, flatscreen support, SDHC cards, sound, SER, ethernet. CPU is within an FPGA chip. Runs both QDOS Classic and Minerva. The operating systems themselves seem to work allright by now, also Basic and some programs. Other programs might never work, I suspect further bugs in the CPU. Which project deserves a seat in the lifeboat? Which one would *you* prefer to see finished - even if it comes with limitations? All the best Peter _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
