The Sinclair QL Forum

Hi all,

It's been a tough few months. I have got a neat little QL set-up and have had a lot of fun doing little programming projects and experiments with it.

However, it's QL hardware, and there are limitations to what it can do that don't sit well with me.

I have been thinking of stopping using original hardware and instead going the emulation route. However, I have some parts that are in demand and that I feel it would be wrong to take out of use, like an Aurora card, a few interfaces, etc.

I'm debating putting them up for sale here or on eBay or someplace, and using the money to buy Q-Emulator. I had a trial of it and it was fabulous, but the trial expired, and then my mac died, and bills - you know how it goes...

So, my big internal debate right now is do I keep these parts (hello my precious!) or put them back to the community who will use them, instead of keep them as museum pieces?

Dave

Tough one Dave, took me 25 years to realise I should have kept the QL equipment even if it doesn't work today. I now have several QLs and associated equipment and books, and will look out for any other that takes my fancy, I tend to use Qemulator for trying out stuff, I have QPC2 but not having a PC machine anymore means to use it I emulate emulate. But if an Aurora or SuperGold card turns up well thats a different story. The QLs can be picked up quite cheaply so that projects can be run from them fairly easy without tying up a laptop or other computer system running an emulator.

My advice FWIW, hang on to it.

Well, it's quite a few things... I have here an Aurora, gold card, SuperQBoard, Trump card, QubIDE, etc...

Also, I have around 50 backplanes from Tony Firshman that I will be able to finish assembling with the money and put into the community.

Or I could keep the boards, and just do everything else - more slowly

I'd bite your hand off for the aurora, QubIDE and the gold card(if it's the standard one not super) As a new user it's almost impossible now to track some of these exciting parts down!

After careful thought, I have decided to sell the aurora and trump card. I'll post them on eBay in a few days.

When you have them listed, make sure you post links back here!!