Mark Martin wrote: > Do you have a working 68K core with all the support chips?
The Q68 is a functional system on a finished PCB, actually running QDOS Classic and Minerva. > What would > convince you to release that so that efforts could be made to port that to > inexpensive dev kits? Sorry, I can not spend additional time to support even more boards, while having a better, already finished board. I designed the Q68, because those kits were more expensive to manufacture, bigger, and did not contain all the hardware I found suitable. > I know this runs contrary to the current QL culture of charging for every > little thing, but if a semi working core were made available, I'd be > interested in putting what little expertise I have to help finish it. But > only on commodity hardware now that it's becoming ubiquitous (e.g. > arcadefpga) I have spent many hundreds of working hours for the Q68 - for free. (And by the way, we are not talking some tinkered breadboard, but a professional PCB design, certainly better than average industry quality.) I spent money for tools and prototyping which I do not seek to recover. Even if I have to purchase production parts myself (and I'd be glad if someone else can do that job) I would do it on zero profit basis. Given those facts, remarks like "charging for every little thing" are a way to remove the rest of motivation for QL work I had left. Peter _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
