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Raspberry Pi emulator state of play...

Posted: Wed May 09, 2018 10:30 pm
by Dave
What is the current most compatible Pi QL Emulator, and who maintains it?

Re: Raspberry Pi emulator state of play...

Posted: Wed May 09, 2018 10:43 pm
by NormanDunbar
Hi Dave,

This might help: https://dilwyn2.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/uqlx-2017/.

(As recently seen in MagPi magazine! Page 94. Free and legal pdf copy at https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/MagPi69.pdf.)

Cheers,
Norm.

Re: Raspberry Pi emulator state of play...

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 1:56 pm
by Artificer
Hi Dave,

I would say smsqmulator, the java based emulator maintained by Wolfgang Lenerz. Its more capable than uQLx, which I have also tried, as it runs smsq/e. uQLx, gives a more basic QDOS QL emulation. It does run faster than smsqmulator and I expect it is more stable in the recent release. For smsqumulator gets a useful speed out of the emulation (slightly faster bogomips than the Q68) with a RPi 3 with a slight touch of over clocking or the just released RPi 3+.

http://qlheaven.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/ ... -rpi3.html

http://qlheaven.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/ ... -rpi2.html

http://qlheaven.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/ ... -rpi3.html

Re: Raspberry Pi emulator state of play...

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 2:17 pm
by Dave
Being able to run SMSQ/E is always attractive.

Being written in Java and having an active maintainer, I wonder if Wolfgang Lenerz has tried implementing any interfaces using the GPIOs?

Re: Raspberry Pi emulator state of play...

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 4:30 pm
by Dave
Just been playing with a Pi 3 and SMSQEmulator....

It's a bit faster than my Q68.

Surprising.

Haven't ever been able to get uQLx to work at all.

Re: Raspberry Pi emulator state of play...

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 4:34 pm
by XorA
Dave wrote:
Haven't ever been able to get uQLx to work at all.
That should work, Swensons distro was developed on Pi0 :-D

Re: Raspberry Pi emulator state of play...

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 5:59 pm
by Dave
I'm glad you showed up :D

I got uQLx running on an older Pi 2 but not on this Pi 3. Don't know why.

Any possibility of uQLx growing to support SMSQ/E?

Re: Raspberry Pi emulator state of play...

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 7:19 pm
by Derek_Stewart
Hi,

I istalled Java on my RPI3B and run SMSQmulator, works well.

See post:

Re: Raspberry Pi emulator state of play...

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 7:19 pm
by Derek_Stewart
Hi,

I istalled Java on my RPI3B and run SMSQmulator, works well.

See my Lapdock post:

http://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php? ... ock#p13514

Re: Raspberry Pi emulator state of play...

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 10:29 pm
by XorA
Dave wrote: Any possibility of uQLx growing to support SMSQ/E?
Its more the other way round who will write the SMSQ/E drivers for uQlx?