Re: [Ql-Users] Cobra5329

2008-02-27 Thread Arnould
Yes Malcolm, We already know this, it was the subject of the (long) email of Nasta at beginning of Dec. 2004. The only difference: 3 years later there is a board with everything built in to tinker. It only lacks V4 core of the Coldfire. But this seems to be very annoying to say the least, as Nasta

Re: [Ql-Users] Cobra5329

2008-02-27 Thread Malcolm Lear
Hi Arnould This link is quite interesting. http://www.microapl.co.uk/Porting/ColdFire/ Malcolm Arnould wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:58:21 +0100, pgraf wrote > >> Hi Derek, >> >> Just to save you time and money: All ideas to just buy an >> existing Coldfire board and get QL software run

Re: [Ql-Users] Cobra5329

2008-02-27 Thread Arnould
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:58:21 +0100, pgraf wrote > Hi Derek, > > Just to save you time and money: All ideas to just buy an > existing Coldfire board and get QL software run natively are > bound to fail. > > All the best > Peter Another path would be to try to adapt just SMSQ/E + SBasic + some o

Re: [Ql-Users] Cobra5329

2008-02-27 Thread pgraf
Hi Derek, > The Cobra board looks quite interesting, it has an embedded Linux > system. So that would mean that the Linux code is open source, so no > mystery about how things work. The only QL use would be complete 68k emulation in software. The V3 core is pretty useless if you want to execut

Re: [Ql-Users] Cobra5329

2008-02-27 Thread Arnould
> But first, you'd > have to have a full 68k emulation on the coldfire going - > which is not an easy task in itsself. > > Regards > Tobias I know. Here is what Marcel wrote into this list on 3. Dec. 2004 about converting the source code of SMSQ/E to Coldfire which has an instruction set that i

Re: [Ql-Users] Cobra5329

2008-02-27 Thread Malcolm Lear
Hi A possible solution: http://www.innovasic.com/fido.htm This company guarantees all their products will have a production life of at least 10 years! Malcolm Tobias Fröschle wrote: > Derek Stewart schrieb: > >> Hi Arnold, >> >> The Cobra board looks quite interesting, it has an embedded Li