XorA wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 2:34 pm
Dilwyn, I think your understanding of https is flawed.
It is http over SSL/TLS transport, your problem is not with the http part, it is the setup of the encrypted tunnel. I very much doubt you can do this in SuperBasic (not before the tunnel times out anyway). Even the key exchange on 68008 would take 30+ seconds I believe in optimized ASM!
Yeah, and modern ciphers are going to be impossible. If it were DES, that would be an easy algorithm to implement on a QL. I have my students do 4 of 16 rounds by hand because I'm mean. Well, that and it's just bit twiddling. It does have some similarities to AES, though not the matrix multiplication.
This is a good text (a bit old) on some of these algorithms. Chapter 3 on page 55 goes over DES in step-by-step detail and chapter 4 on page 87 goes over AES in similar detail:
swensont wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2025 7:07 pm
> It seems that Q-emuLator is also the only one that supports that format.
Since the .qlpak file contains Q-emulator config information, I don't think other emulators would support it. There are ways to get the same thing done on other emulators.
One could distribute software was a qxl.win file that is configured to boot and have all toolkits needed. If a specific emulator config is needed, that could be included and a script can all the emulator with the specific config file.
A full package system may not be worth the time invested in creating it. I was thinking about doing a open source spell checker for Quill, but I think I'm the only one still using Quill on a regular basis, so I put that idea on the back burner.
Tim
I still use quill on a regular basis as well, that open source spell checker is a great idea. Another desirable feature in Quill is adding the ability to insert "hyperlinks" to images or other files (I don't know if this is possible in a simple way).
Regarding packages in QL, I also think the simplest way is to build custom qxl.win volumes for each configuration. (I've been very frustrated in the past trying to build a distribution that would run satisfactorily on all hardware variants of the QL platform.)
One can easily insert hyperlinks into a Quill document, but you can't do anything with them. Lynx is really the only functional web browser on the QL.
The spell checker would be something that works on a document outside of Quill. The reason I put it on the back burner is that my normal writing process is to start with Quill, get mostly done, and then move the document to OpenOffice or LibreOffice where I do spell checking. I rarely publish a document in Quill format.
