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 Linux

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 is a

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 execute

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 other

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 natively

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

Re: [Ql-Users] Cobra5329

2008-02-26 Thread Arnould
No answer to this message neither to a couple of older ones. Did anybody receive one of them? Arnould On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:18:59 +0100, Arnould wrote I know that a little more than 3 years ago Nasta came to the conclusion to use V4 Coldfire to possibly port SMSQ/E. But then there is this

Re: [Ql-Users] Cobra5329

2008-02-26 Thread Arnould
In fact I find it interesting because this future proof processor has everything to possibly develop a less than $50 SMSQ/E based machine. This target being production cost (not selling price) for a few hundred or more machines equiped with case and LCD display. With this idea, that Cobra5329

Re: [Ql-Users] Cobra5329

2008-02-26 Thread Derek Stewart
Hi Arnold, 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. Do know the cost of the board. Derek Arnold wrote: No answer to this message neither to a couple of older ones.

Re: [Ql-Users] Cobra5329

2008-02-26 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Derek Stewart schrieb: Hi Arnold, 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. Do know the cost of the board. Derek Arnold wrote: All, I also started to look

[Ql-Users] Cobra5329

2008-02-24 Thread Arnould
I know that a little more than 3 years ago Nasta came to the conclusion to use V4 Coldfire to possibly port SMSQ/E. But then there is this interesting platform named Cobra5329 which could be bought today to tinker: