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Hi,
AL Wrote: QLAY will probably do 95% of what you are looking
for.
Yes, maybe, but QLAY have limitations.
- Use an anfitrion OS.
- Emulate the original QDOS only (not add advanced
features)
- etc...
uQLx can be the solution, but its use other OS
(Linux)
if QLAY or uQLx were thought for a computer with
generic hardware, would be QL for many years. We
do not forget the history. Q40 or any other propietary hardware will finish
being obsolete.
A very clear example are Linux and BeOS (in
the future OpenBeOS). Both Operating systems chose to migrate to an
opened platform, where the hardware was cheap and easily preemtive.
A similar dilemma undergoes the Amiga users.
Apple even uses already generic component for its equipment.
The effort truely would consist of creating software. I understand that it is a inutil effort if thinks about him from the commercial point of view. But I believe that to work in advanced emulators it supposes the same effort. It is certain that the price of an emulator is important. QLAY is
free, and QPC or another emulator have a smaller cost than the of
a complete computer one, but whom they buy a Q40 wants
something more. They want a new machine, with new
characteristics and look for independence. This it is, mainly, the point of view
of my reasoning.
All we have old computers, old Pentiums that we used to put
linux like http or FTP server or similar things. If I must pay by a software
that emulates the QL, I'll prefer that it was a software able to work in my old
Pentium for example.
Good, all this are only ideas. I am conscious of the work and
the effort of as much people that make us arrive their wonderful programs and
extensions from hardware.
Personally, I'm very happy for being able to use QLAY nowadays, but we
perhaps must think about not repeating the history. If QLAY, uQLx, QPC or
other emulators are what we want to conserve for the future... well, but an
independent operating system of the propietary hardware would be, in the long
run, more adaptable, and would offer to the programmers an development
a via based on software who is independent of the machine in which it
is going to work.
Regards
Javier Guerra
Sinclair QL Spanish Resources
P.D.: I feel if I did not express myself with the correct expressions, but
believe that the general concept will be well understood.
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