Re: [ql-users] SDGC

2007-02-17 Thread John Sadler
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 02:51, Daniele Terdina wrote: It would be great to be able to fit a PC in a QL case, with a 100% compatible QL emulator running on it and able to access the microdrives (or better 1 mdv and a memory card reader in the right slot) and QL keyboard, plus plenty of

[ql-users] SDGC

2007-02-13 Thread pgraf
Hi, there has always been a number of QL folks who want native hardware, but weren't satisfied with the concept of the Q60. They kept looking for a Super Duper Gold Card. I often tried to understand what they really have in mind but failed. Some of them seem on this list now, maybe my

Re: [ql-users] SDGC

2007-02-13 Thread Tony Firshman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, there has always been a number of QL folks who want native hardware, but weren't satisfied with the concept of the Q60. They kept looking for a Super Duper Gold Card. I often tried to understand what they really

Re: [ql-users] SDGC

2007-02-13 Thread Rick Chagouri-Brindle
I think is is just nostalgia for the first experience. For the people who liked the original black box, the add-ons to that are attractive, and one feels one is still using the original. Tony I think so too . . . looking at it objectively if you replace too much of the original QL you are

Re: [ql-users] SDGC

2007-02-13 Thread Bob Spelten
Op Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:50:25 +0100 schreef Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think is is just nostalgia for the first experience. For the people who liked the original black box, the add-ons to that are attractive, and one feels one is still using the original. The design of the Sinclairs

Re: [ql-users] SDGC

2007-02-13 Thread Stephen Usher
So MY ideal machine would be one that is capable of using the full potential of SMSQ/PEv2 (only QPC2 and Qx0 can do that now, both Aurora/SGC and QXL suffer from lack of memory) and can be fitted in a black box (or my MaxiQL or MinisQL). QL Today v10i2 had an article of the June 2005

Re: [ql-users] SDGC

2007-02-13 Thread pgraf
Rick Chagouri-Brindle wrote: I think so too . . . looking at it objectively if you replace too much of the original QL you are no longer really using the QL, but the fact that it is still in the black box is subjectively attractive. I wonder if the QL motherboard needs to stay to keep the

Re: [ql-users] SDGC

2007-02-13 Thread Rick Chagouri-Brindle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Chagouri-Brindle wrote: I think so too . . . looking at it objectively if you replace too much of the original QL you are no longer really using the QL, but the fact that it is still in the black box is subjectively attractive. I wonder if the QL

Re: [ql-users] SDGC

2007-02-13 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Peter Graf wrote: I wonder if the QL motherboard needs to stay to keep the thing subjectively attractive. Or could the QL be filled with completely new life, just keeping the black case? I think that an Aurora card can in principle be built into a QL case, but it's not easy. Probably easier to

Re: [ql-users] SDGC

2007-02-13 Thread Rick Chagouri-Brindle
Dilwyn Jones wrote: But if a 'Super QL' were made to fit the original case, it would of course have nostalgia value, as the original QL case design was one of its great features. Absolutely . . . are there certainly seems a market for nostalgia at the moment . . . There's a Dutch

Re: [ql-users] SDGC

2007-02-13 Thread Richard Kilpatrick
On 13 Feb 2007, at 22:06, Dilwyn Jones wrote: But if a 'Super QL' were made to fit the original case, it would of course have nostalgia value, as the original QL case design was one of its great features. If a SuperQL was made as a new motherboard, but incorporating connectors for MDV,

Re: [ql-users] SDGC

2007-02-13 Thread Daniele Terdina
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] d.com] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 7:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] SDGC Rick Chagouri-Brindle wrote: I think so too . . . looking at it objectively if you replace too much of the original QL you