Amen!xelalex wrote:But as I wrote further up, computer h/w has made tremendous progress of the last 50 years. What may seem powerful in comparison to a vintage machine, could be nothing by today's standards. And what motivates me to work on my projects, in addition to keeping the old h/w running, is combining it with what we have available today. I guess we all set the dials to different values here. And when it comes to my classic car for example, I'm taking a whole different approach. I'm quite a 'keeping it stock' fanatic there...Bloodnok wrote:My comments were only in jest (using relatively massive computing power for a simple hardware emulator is just too tempting a target - I thought using an ATMega328 for the vDrive QL was a step to far!).
Whatever the line between to use a powerful system to get the same feature than a very old one has not place when the goal is to enjoy developing and serves solutions for who has a problem. Just add to my argument that shares your POV is there are FPGAs that are so much powerful than a QL launched by Sinclair and nobody hesitate to get one of those FPGAs. Just get fun and give options to the users that need it is the best! isn't it?
About vDrive... I saw it in Noel video and I like it, but the cost is too high for my pocket. With your open project Alex you allowed a lot of people to access to a feature that was necessary when our mDrives become broken. Keeping the feeling of original one. Thank you for your intellectual donation to the QL community.
Bloodnok, maybe I misunderstood you, did you say that your vDrive has not sound emulation from original? ... Noel in his report add a sound emulation easily, I thought it came from you. Have you watch it?
