Hi all from the Netherlands
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:32 pm
Hi all,
My name is Chris Zeinstra (39), living in the upper part in the Netherlands (Groningen). My history with the QL goes a long way back to the eighties. My brother owned a ZX81 and ZX Spectrum and after playing and programming on those machines I could convince my parents to buy a QL (JM version). At that time they were being dumped at much lower prices. I really loved the machine, except when that horrible Bad or Changed Medium error appeared after the Microdrives had been running for more than a minute and suddenly stopped
. Anyway, I recently bought a QL (again a JM version) in good condition and it brought back some good old memories.
Of course I have been playing with some emulators throughout the years. I saw a post about an iPad running Qlay (I think). I was wondering if anybody ever considered trying to build an emulator written in Java, so it could be run on an Android with some modifications. As far as I know, the Apple App store prohibits emulation software. If anyone is interested I would be more than happy to contribute. I have a lot of experience with Java programming, being a CS lecturer at the university. I know it would be a big project, but a lot of code already exists and needs to be ported to Java.
My name is Chris Zeinstra (39), living in the upper part in the Netherlands (Groningen). My history with the QL goes a long way back to the eighties. My brother owned a ZX81 and ZX Spectrum and after playing and programming on those machines I could convince my parents to buy a QL (JM version). At that time they were being dumped at much lower prices. I really loved the machine, except when that horrible Bad or Changed Medium error appeared after the Microdrives had been running for more than a minute and suddenly stopped
. Anyway, I recently bought a QL (again a JM version) in good condition and it brought back some good old memories.Of course I have been playing with some emulators throughout the years. I saw a post about an iPad running Qlay (I think). I was wondering if anybody ever considered trying to build an emulator written in Java, so it could be run on an Android with some modifications. As far as I know, the Apple App store prohibits emulation software. If anyone is interested I would be more than happy to contribute. I have a lot of experience with Java programming, being a CS lecturer at the university. I know it would be a big project, but a lot of code already exists and needs to be ported to Java.
