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Well not so much a wish now. It came today!
Thoughts and pics of the new SD interface in the QUANTA feb/mar issue

But what else could we wish for this year hmmmnnn

Mmmmm... SD card interface - Nice! Once the issue is published, would you mind summing up here too for us non-Quanta members?

As for me, I'd still like to see SQlite ported with SuperBASIC extensions. I know it won't happen (and I don't have the C and QDOS/68008 skills needed to make it happen either), but it would make porting over loads of my software so much easier if there were an SQL-based relational database available on the QL. (I know that there are other database systems for the QL, but non are SQL-based, to my knowledge and as such tend to be rather unwieldy)

Maybe a Raspberry Pi distro that booted straight into a QL emulator, no faffing about, would be a nice addition to my current collection of RaspPi operating systems.

Hardware-wise, I am more just interested to see what people come up with, as I just use emulators now and keep my original in a box.

And... a QL mug! The QL seems to be the only mainstream 80s micro not to have its own mug on eBay. For shame

Hi,

I did have a look at the SQLite3 source code, a wulie back.

SQLite3 uses Unicode in its compilation. I was pondering over, does the QL system needs Unicode. I do not think there is a Unicode Library for C68, so maybe porting SQLite without Unicode would be OK.

This as a while back, I was overtaken by more pressing things, however, since I am not working anymore, maybe I could look at this again.

Derek

Sparrowhawk wrote:Mmmmm... SD card interface - Nice! Once the issue is published, would you mind summing up here too for us non-Quanta members?

Sure, absolutely, however I may not have it set-up until I get my set-up unpacked

This is on my ever list of things to complete, I say complete rather than do as I am already halfway there, moving is taking its toll at the mo

Hardware-wise, I am more just interested to see what people come up with, as I just use emulators now and keep my original in a box.

Both for me

And... a QL mug! The QL seems to be the only mainstream 80s micro not to have its own mug on eBay. For shame

Mug, QL mug - pic please

That first image is interesting, as it shows the QL-SD in the left hand microdrive slot... I wonder if the right hand slot still works, because it seems you need to add a wire link if you remove mdv1 !!

RWAP wrote:That first image is interesting, as it shows the QL-SD in the left hand microdrive slot... I wonder if the right hand slot still works, because it seems you need to add a wire link if you remove mdv1 !!

Ah that was from a wishlist in 2011 where I did some gigury pokery with Photoshop

Derek_Stewart wrote:since I am not working anymore, maybe I could look at this again.

That would be great if you were able to do so. Count me in as a system tester if you like.

Just finished learning Python (on Ubuntu laptop, to have a programming language to use on it). One of the things it covered was using SQLite, I thought wouldn't this be great on the QL... This is definitely on my wish list also (along with TCP/IP access like Python).