The development of QLem has now been taken up again.
I'd be interested in hearing from people who want to help out.
Currently the whole thing's written in assembly language, but I expect
a lot of the code from now on will be in C.
Even if you can't program at all, you're very welcome to help out with
the testing of software. Ideas for new features etc are also very welcome.
Better support for the Falcon030 and STonX (a portable ST emulator that runs
on just about any UNIX system with X windows (for example PCs with Linux))
is the important thing right now.
It should not be very difficult to make an STonX based QLem run without
the ST ROMs normally required by STonX. Work is in progress to do just that
(not by me).
QLEM v1.45Jx(beta) works on the Falcon030! (only in ST colour, though)
Even floppy access works (for DD disks).
ToolkitII (TrumpCard v1.21), Qmon2 and the PSION programs have been tried
on the Falcon and chances are good that most other programs will work as well.
Let me know if there are any problems.
This new QLem version also works better with STonX, but the major problems
with that are bugs in the processor emulation.
The floating point bug (bad V after ASL) has been fixed! [960416]
Email me if you don't want to wait for the next STonX release.
A new version of QLem is now near [960528]
The most important feature is probably the keyboard remapping, which will
allow you to make the emulated QL keyboard behave according to the labels.
There's also a new 'pseudo interlace' mode for screen emulation, which means
that the full 256 rows can now 'fit' on a normal ST screen.
I've also included support for running in higher resolutions.
Falcon owners should be happy to hear that the bus error handler has been
updated to work as well as it does on the ST. This means that programs like
The Editor will now run nicely.
I hope to fix the bug that causes some files to load incorrectly when using
the TOS/DOS disk device driver before the new release.
If you don't have a recent Lharc unpacker, just select and download.