QL on the Raspberry Pi...?

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi,

I considered fitting a Q68 board to a PS/2 mini keyboard, would this be something worth doing?

[dilwyn]

Hi,

I considered fitting a Q68 board to a PS/2 mini keyboard, would this be something worth doing?

Guess that would be attractive to someone like me who is short of desk space to permanently set up a "QL".

[Dave]

The Pi 400 with emulator will be much faster than a Q68, and half the price.

While there's something satisfying about real hardware, for plain performance and ease of access, this Pi 400 is going to be a real boon.

Just waiting for the all black model to be released in February. Pink is not my thing.

[Derek_Stewart]

The Pi 400 with emulator will be much faster than a Q68, and half the price.

Which emulator?

Bearing mind Q68 can run SMSQ/E, where the PI can only run SMSQmulator with Java installed.

While there's something satisfying about real hardware, for plain performance and ease of access, this Pi 400 is going to be a real boon.

I may buy one, but I hardly use the PIs I have.

Just waiting for the all black model to be released in February. Pink is not my thing.

I thought someone said you look pretty in pink....

[XorA]

The Pi 400 with emulator will be much faster than a Q68, and half the price.

Which emulator?

Bearing mind Q68 can run SMSQ/E, where the PI can only run SMSQmulator with Java installed.

Just need the source code for QPC2 and a quick port to ARM and sorted for SMSQ/e

[NormanDunbar]

I beleve that some/much/most of QPC2 is written in assembler. I might be misremembering, but I'm sure (at my age, that's about 60% sure) Marcel mentioned this a while back.

Be gentle if I'm wrong though!

Cheers,
Norm.

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi,

I think porting SMSQ/E to ARM be be easier than seeing the source code to QPC2...

[mk79]

Just need the source code for QPC2 and a quick port to ARM and sorted for SMSQ/e

I'm almost tempted to give it to you to see how quickly you can port 10000 Lines of x86 Assembler to ARM

Well, it used to be a lot more lines, but for the upcoming v5 I rewrote everything but the 68k core in C, so it's easier now and one might just switch to a C-based core to get rid of the rest (which I expect not to be easy but doable). But then you'd still be stuck with some 15000 lines of C code that was exclusively written with Windows in mind, making plenty of use of the Windows and DirectX APIs and so on. I read people have managed to install Windows 10 on a Pi, but it doesn't seem to be a pleasant nor fast experience ("starting a browser takes several minutes").

I've been working on this thing code for over 25 years and few lines have not been refactored in this time, but god damn, that's a long time.

[NormanDunbar]

I'm almost tempted to give it to you to see how quickly you can port 10000 Lines of x86 Assembler to ARM

Hey! I was right!

And ARM assembly is just weird. (Dons flameproof suit.....)

I've been working on this thing code for over 25 years and few lines have not been refactored in this time, but god damn, that's a long time.

That's more than a long time, that's serious dedication. And thanks for all you have done over the years, without QPC, I'd have no QLing.


Stay safe.


Cheers,
Norm.

[XorA]

Just need the source code for QPC2 and a quick port to ARM and sorted for SMSQ/e

I'm almost tempted to give it to you to see how quickly you can port 10000 Lines of x86 Assembler to ARM

Well, it used to be a lot more lines, but for the upcoming v5 I rewrote everything but the 68k core in C, so it's easier now and one might just switch to a C-based core to get rid of the rest (which I expect not to be easy but doable). But then you'd still be stuck with some 15000 lines of C code that was exclusively written with Windows in mind, making plenty of use of the Windows and DirectX APIs and so on. I read people have managed to install Windows 10 on a Pi, but it doesn't seem to be a pleasant nor fast experience ("starting a browser takes several minutes").

I've been working on this thing code for over 25 years and few lines have not been refactored in this time, but god damn, that's a long time.

Sorry I missed the smiley I meant to put on the statement as I know youve detailed that before.

The DirectX/Windows APIs would not be my worry on that as wine project is also a linkable library so there is a native linux ARM implementation of those.