Remember this ? (for forum people who have been here awhile)
Well not so much a wish now. It came today!
Thoughts and pics of the new SD interface in the QUANTA feb/mar issue
But what else could we wish for this year hmmmnnn
QL Wishlist for 2014
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Re: QL Wishlist for 2014
Mmmmm... SD card interface - Nice! Once the issue is published, would you mind summing up here too for us non-Quanta members?
As for me, I'd still like to see SQlite ported with SuperBASIC extensions. I know it won't happen (and I don't have the C and QDOS/68008 skills needed to make it happen either), but it would make porting over loads of my software so much easier if there were an SQL-based relational database available on the QL. (I know that there are other database systems for the QL, but non are SQL-based, to my knowledge and as such tend to be rather unwieldy)
Maybe a Raspberry Pi distro that booted straight into a QL emulator, no faffing about, would be a nice addition to my current collection of RaspPi operating systems.
Hardware-wise, I am more just interested to see what people come up with, as I just use emulators now and keep my original in a box.
And... a QL mug! The QL seems to be the only mainstream 80s micro not to have its own mug on eBay. For shame
As for me, I'd still like to see SQlite ported with SuperBASIC extensions. I know it won't happen (and I don't have the C and QDOS/68008 skills needed to make it happen either), but it would make porting over loads of my software so much easier if there were an SQL-based relational database available on the QL. (I know that there are other database systems for the QL, but non are SQL-based, to my knowledge and as such tend to be rather unwieldy)
Maybe a Raspberry Pi distro that booted straight into a QL emulator, no faffing about, would be a nice addition to my current collection of RaspPi operating systems.
Hardware-wise, I am more just interested to see what people come up with, as I just use emulators now and keep my original in a box.
And... a QL mug! The QL seems to be the only mainstream 80s micro not to have its own mug on eBay. For shame
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Re: QL Wishlist for 2014
Hi,
I did have a look at the SQLite3 source code, a wulie back.
SQLite3 uses Unicode in its compilation. I was pondering over, does the QL system needs Unicode. I do not think there is a Unicode Library for C68, so maybe porting SQLite without Unicode would be OK.
This as a while back, I was overtaken by more pressing things, however, since I am not working anymore, maybe I could look at this again.
Derek
I did have a look at the SQLite3 source code, a wulie back.
SQLite3 uses Unicode in its compilation. I was pondering over, does the QL system needs Unicode. I do not think there is a Unicode Library for C68, so maybe porting SQLite without Unicode would be OK.
This as a while back, I was overtaken by more pressing things, however, since I am not working anymore, maybe I could look at this again.
Derek
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Re: QL Wishlist for 2014
Sure, absolutely, however I may not have it set-up until I get my set-up unpackedSparrowhawk wrote:Mmmmm... SD card interface - Nice! Once the issue is published, would you mind summing up here too for us non-Quanta members?
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Maybe a Raspberry Pi distro that booted straight into a QL emulator, no faffing about, would be a nice addition to my current collection of RaspPi operating systems.
Hardware-wise, I am more just interested to see what people come up with, as I just use emulators now and keep my original in a box.
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Mug, QL mug - pic pleaseAnd... a QL mug! The QL seems to be the only mainstream 80s micro not to have its own mug on eBay. For shame
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Re: QL Wishlist for 2014
That first image is interesting, as it shows the QL-SD in the left hand microdrive slot... I wonder if the right hand slot still works, because it seems you need to add a wire link if you remove mdv1 !!
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Re: QL Wishlist for 2014
Ah that was from a wishlist in 2011 where I did some gigury pokery with PhotoshopRWAP wrote:That first image is interesting, as it shows the QL-SD in the left hand microdrive slot... I wonder if the right hand slot still works, because it seems you need to add a wire link if you remove mdv1 !!
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That would be great if you were able to do so. Count me in as a system tester if you like.Derek_Stewart wrote:since I am not working anymore, maybe I could look at this again.
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Re: QL Wishlist for 2014
Just finished learning Python (on Ubuntu laptop, to have a programming language to use on it). One of the things it covered was using SQLite, I thought wouldn't this be great on the QL... This is definitely on my wish list also (along with TCP/IP access like Python).
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