The Sinclair QL Forum

The subject says it!

The Amiga (starting from 6'000 DM at the beginning [A1000, 1985]) was always my dream computer(!). I never could afford it (didn't want a play console as the A500 but an A2000+).

But now I can afford it, and I know there's a Sinclair QL Emulator available for the Amiga (the first was from Kowalski [or so] from Berlin; I have had known people, who knew him personally). So I want the fastest Amiga (2000, 3000 [4000 should be more bad than 3000 I have heard]) available (I thnk there were add on cards with 68060).

What's a realistic price (at least a processor card with 68040 must be included)? (I'm afraid there's no chance to buy a Q40 or QXL Card).

And what's the best QL emulator for the Amiga?

If you want to tinker with it, maybe an A600 would be better since it's small and portable. I will say, the emulation isn't necessarily going to be what you expect. The video output is a bit odd, not taking up the entire screen and taking over the Amiga since it's less an emulator and more a ROM replacement. You can give it a try first using an older version of WinUAE (I couldn't get a newer version to work). I have played with it in both worlds and recorded some video of it.

WinUAE running the QL Amiga emulator where it did a better job with screen display:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olHIeWHg3Aw

Actual Amiga 600 running QL and here you can see the screen looks squished and has lots of black border:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRHzcdFASXo

I have an A1200 with TF1260 68060 Expansion card. It is currently testing 68060 CPUs for use in a Q60.

Also have A500 with PiStorm, quite fast, A600 8Mb ram medium speed.

I have FS-UAE compi,ed from source running on Linux Core i5 PC, very fast.

But they do not get much use, maybe sell them, later this year.

bwinkel67 wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 1:46 am https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olHIeWHg3Aw

Wow, this one is Great! Thank You!

ql_freak wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 1:51 am Wow, this one is Great! Thank You!

Ahm... you were looking for a 68040 or 68060 Amiga computer because you can't get hands on a QXL/Q40/Q60.
How does a PC emulating an Amiga to emulate a QL match that?

Well if Derek (or you) will produce a new batch of Q60, there's of course no need to buy an Amiga :-)

ql_freak wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 1:23 am Well if Derek (or you) will produce a new batch of Q60, there's of course no need to buy an Amiga

The point with the Amiga QDOS Classic is that it doesn't support High Resolution High Color Graphics - What you get is a very fast (provided the Amiga is...) QL with four or eight-color mode - Which I see as a major downside today.

Why does hot_rext and qpac2 not run on a 68030/40 ?

hot_xx gives not implemented

tested under FS-UAE 4.0.x

Greetings from Switzerland
Markus

desin wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 6:13 pm Why does hot_rext and qpac2 not run on a 68030/40 ?

I had no problems on the Q40/Q60 with those. Older versions though.

ql_freak wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 1:23 am Well if Derek (or you) will produce a new batch of Q60, there's of course no need to buy an Amiga

We'll see what is possible. But my remark regarding WinUAE was more about emulation via an Amiga software emulator. You can emulate a high end QL directly and - except the fun of trying it out - I can not see the point in using WinUAE as an additional emulation layer.