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My answer is as follows:- I still believe that one day, I will be able to find someone willing to finish the Stella project.

Is it open source?

Stella, according to Tony Tebby, represents the zenith of his operating system designs.

But shackled to the 68K CPU line. Which was already in ...

It runs on the Atari ST core, but I would love to see SMS2 running on your FPGA boards.

I did successfully try open source PC/AT and Z80 FPGA implementations on my boards, so Atari would also not be rocket science.
Just glad that Markus warned about the mass storage issue. Good reason to better ...

Tinyfpga wrote: Sat Jun 14, 2025 9:06 am SMS2 also runs natively on a Mist FPGA.

But not with the QL core I guess?

Tinyfpga wrote: Sat Jun 14, 2025 9:06 am The interpreter was replaced with a QD/Liberator Integrated development system that I still use today in both SMS2 and SMSQE.

That sounds like QLiberator. Was it essentially the same?

Would SMSQ/E Gold (with a GoldCard) loaded from Tony Firshman's ROMDISQ count? Then we already have (had) it.

I still have it :D

If a system with separate CPU counts: QIMSI Gold has onboard Flash ROM, too.
Only a small portion of those 4 MB is needed by the FPGA and could be used for storage ...

It is for the lefthand I/O connector, typically used for QLNET with the accelerated CPU.

We usually start Friday afternoon and pack on Sunday in the morning. That would be 22nd to 24th of May 2026 if everything goes as expected.
Would be fantastic to also meet the Spanish team! We might need a larger conference room then - which should be available in the same Hotel.
Please inform ...

The one on the left: CUS10S30

Before ripping off further components, it might be helpful to get a case for protection.

The Q60 boards sold by Derek were very high quality.
The same goes for all Q68 that I saw, including repairs for users not reading the manual.
Confusion might have been caused by some of the old Qbranch Q40 boards - but Derek was never involved there.

Sadly, there are still persons in the QL scene ...

Hi Dilwyn,
it could help your event management to already reserve Pentecost 2026 for QL purposes
More british attendance would be great!
Peter

Let alone the fact that SMSQ/E for the QL never existed.
Even if it existed, it would require a few KB RAM overlay at $0, which the QL does not have.