QL on the Raspberry Pi...?
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2020 10:11 pm
Again, this may appear to be a noobish question, so bear with me.
I have an original-model (2012) Raspberry Pi, the one with two USB ports and... not a lot going for it. And I'm not terribly familiar with these sub-computer systems (as we might call them), other than them being ARM-based bare boards that can run some form of Linux. My Pi is old enough that it could only run Raspbian up to a version released circa mid-2016, any newer than that and it really struggles.
Pis are usually seen as being suitable for retro-computing, and I'd assume that something like uQLx could potentially run through Raspbian. I think, though, if I could ever get that working, it'd be slower than treacle running down a very gentle slope in a Siberian winter*. I haven't tried RetroPie on it yet, even though I'll probably get around to that at some stage...
...and the reason for the delay is because, back in my regular haunt of Spectrum-ville, there exists ZXBaremulator. It emulates a 48K model, 128K and +2A without needing any other operating system - no RetroPie, no Raspian, nowt - and it works very effectively, even on a 2012 Pi. Furthermore, I just found myself looking at a thread that referred to the QL on a Mister system - which is one of those Pi-like sub-computers (isn't it?) - so the thought occurs, might a bare-metal QL emulator for the Pi be possible - or does one exist anyway, that I was unaware of?
It'd be a slightly strange experience as I do have a CRT TV, though the composite output on the Pi only puts out a black and white picture to that TV. To my main LED TV, it's in colour whether it's coming through the composite or HDMI, which tells me it's the TV that's acting odd, not the Pi, and that's good to know.
* Note that I can't take credit for that... but it is derived from a review of my Spectrum meisterwerk from earlier this year!
I have an original-model (2012) Raspberry Pi, the one with two USB ports and... not a lot going for it. And I'm not terribly familiar with these sub-computer systems (as we might call them), other than them being ARM-based bare boards that can run some form of Linux. My Pi is old enough that it could only run Raspbian up to a version released circa mid-2016, any newer than that and it really struggles.
Pis are usually seen as being suitable for retro-computing, and I'd assume that something like uQLx could potentially run through Raspbian. I think, though, if I could ever get that working, it'd be slower than treacle running down a very gentle slope in a Siberian winter*. I haven't tried RetroPie on it yet, even though I'll probably get around to that at some stage...
...and the reason for the delay is because, back in my regular haunt of Spectrum-ville, there exists ZXBaremulator. It emulates a 48K model, 128K and +2A without needing any other operating system - no RetroPie, no Raspian, nowt - and it works very effectively, even on a 2012 Pi. Furthermore, I just found myself looking at a thread that referred to the QL on a Mister system - which is one of those Pi-like sub-computers (isn't it?) - so the thought occurs, might a bare-metal QL emulator for the Pi be possible - or does one exist anyway, that I was unaware of?
It'd be a slightly strange experience as I do have a CRT TV, though the composite output on the Pi only puts out a black and white picture to that TV. To my main LED TV, it's in colour whether it's coming through the composite or HDMI, which tells me it's the TV that's acting odd, not the Pi, and that's good to know.
* Note that I can't take credit for that... but it is derived from a review of my Spectrum meisterwerk from earlier this year!