Debian from Intel to ARM: No Wine, no QPC2, no Q-emuLator

[programandala.net]

Last months I've been migrating Debian from my Asus Eee to a Pandora. I really wanted to leave the Intel platform forever. My Debian environment is a bit unusual, keyboard oriented (Ratpoison + GNU screen + keynav), but at the end I succeeded to make it work in the Pandora. Only hibernation and battery status still remain unsolved.

As for the QL, the ARM platform (the Pandora has a 600 MHz Texas Instruments OMAP3530) means Wine (needed to execute QPC2 and Q-emuLator on GNU/Linux) can not work anymore. That makes uQLx my only choice... I'm working on its compilation.

All this makes me dream about a native GNU/Linux version of Q-emuLator (QPC2 is even more Windows-oriented, as far as I know, and I guess its author would not even consider such a task).

[Mr_Navigator]

Hi Marcus, with the SMSE licence change does your dream take a step nearer a possibility ?

[tofro]

The native, GNU/Linux version of Q-Emulator is uqlx, which is available for Debian/ARM.
(uqlx and Q-Emulator are based on the same roots)

An SMSQ/E based, high-colour, high-resolution version of uqlx would however be highly desirable.

Regards,
Tobias

[Dave]

Are any of the many people working on the ARM port of uQLx for the Pi co-ordinating their efforts?

There has been very little public communication about progress.

Dave

[programandala.net]

Are any of the many people working on the ARM port of uQLx for the Pi co-ordinating their efforts?

It would be useful to know what's the current situation and share the experiences. More and more of us are needing a QL emulator for ARM.

One first simple task would be to publish the best sources. I have several versions I found on different places, with different version number format, different configurations or even modified.

tofro, you successfully executed uQLx on your Genesi Efika in September? It didn't work for me on the Pandora nor the Pi. I tried to build it from several sources too. I've made no further investigation since then because of other non-QL projects. Are you in contact with the author of uQLx?

[tofro]

tofro, you successfully executed uQLx on your Genesi Efika in September? It didn't work for me on the Pandora nor the Pi. I tried to build it from several sources too. I've made no further investigation since then because of other non-QL projects. Are you in contact with the author of uQLx?

Can positively confirm that. And after my RPi has finally arrived, I have working versions of uqlx for both the Genesi ARM and the RPi platform.

Regards,
Tobias

[programandala.net]

I have working versions of uqlx for both the Genesi ARM and the RPi platform.

I use Raspbian on the RPi. Do you? If so, I'd like to try that uQLx.

[Dave]

Can positively confirm that. And after my RPi has finally arrived, I have working versions of uqlx for both the Genesi ARM and the RPi platform.

Regards,
Tobias

Tobias, can you provide any benchmarks, and do you have any code you'd like to share?

Dave

[tofro]

I hope to have a somewhat "final" binary package for the RPi ready after christmas to be put on Dilwyn's site.
Speed is, well, "reasonably fast" (I have no benchmarks, but I guess it well out-paces an original GoldCard QL.)

Regards,
Tobias

[dilwyn]

I hope to have a somewhat "final" binary package for the RPi ready after christmas to be put on Dilwyn's site.
Speed is, well, "reasonably fast" (I have no benchmarks, but I guess it well out-paces an original GoldCard QL.)
Regards,
Tobias

I will look forward to that.

Have you been able to work with Richard Zidlicky on coordinating the sources in any way? It sounds like we need the equivalent of the SMSQ/E Registrar for uQLx now.

Dilwyn