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Sounds like a great idea. I'd go for something as close to the real thing as possible. Just replace the Ula's with cplds and the micro drives with a ql-sd clone. The 8049 will need some help of e.g. a small avr or pic controller to deal with a ps2 keyboard.

Go for it!

Cool. Looking forward to answer your questions

People actively contributing really makes the difference.

I fully understand those wishes. And all of them are possible to implement with reasonable effort and with the existing MIST hardware (and by the way also on every other FPGA board).

But: This needs to come from the QL community. I am by no means a QL fan. I've never even seen one in real life. I ...

QLvsJAGUAR wrote:Last weekend I had the chance to try out the FPGA based computer MIST at the EJAGFEST 2015. After downloading the QL core I’ve explored quite a bit of it. See my results in this video:
https://youtu.be/1VfFaG_XesU

Whoa, cool! It's nice to see people having some fun with this. Thanks for sharing.

That's sure all possible without too much effort. But I don't see a benefit justifying this.

Hi,

this is a small goodbye to you guys here. As a last resort to get anything interesting into the QL FPGA core i wrote two tools. Both available at

https://github.com/mist-devel/mist-binaries/tree/master/cores/ql/tools

qlem2qlay converts qlem MDV images into QLAY format for usage with e.g. my ...

I will not continue it now that I understood everything.

Thanks for your detailed explanation.

RWAP wrote: Sorry I am not willing to simply hand that over - it makes no commercial sense whatsoever.

So it's actually money over preservation. This is the only explanation that really explains the current state. Thanks again.

I have various cracked versions ...

That's imho a problem according to Chapter III, Article 6 in
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2001:167:0010:0019:EN:PDF

My point is: The way you are doing this doesn't seem to be 100% correct, anyway. So your goal of preservation ...

but there is no comparison to Microsoft Windows (where each "new" version that gets sold is different from the free updates service that Microsoft offers for minor bug fixes etc.).


Microsoft sells new versions of it software just like anyone else did back in the days. If you wanted the new ...