The Dead Letter Drop (aka DLD) is the support resource for free software written or maintained by Jonathan Hudson (Jonathan.Hudson@jrhudson.demon.co.uk). This page is not particularly exciting, but should be useable with most browsers.
"Perfectly.... nice this one.... finally you are starting to produce serious software :-))" - a beta tester.
Richard Zidlicky's
(rdzidlic@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de) port of Daniele
Terdina's
(sistest@ictp.trieste.it) 680x0 emulation engine to UNIX/X
continues apace. This emulator runs on Linux and many other
Unices.
It copes admirably with complex software such as Ghostscript, qfv, printfax, zip, unzip, QTPI etc. E-mail Richard for more info or to join the mailing list.
Two small support packages are:
Click me (14Kb GIF, 10/11/96) to see the beta uQLx in action (this is the new look XAW interface). It's running some pretty complex programs in a 4Mb uQLx (virtual) machine (on a 32Mb/Linux P5/100 system).
Visit the official Q-emulator home page for further Mac and Unix info.
Click here to upload PGP 2.62i for QDOS Binaries, full documentation and source. (679Kb, 16/11/96).
This page currently makes available some beta test software.
tar 0.02 Beta tar. Fixes some directory issues, sets file date as original.
SMS and QDOS are operating systems for 680xx based computers, originally (popularised ?) by the Sinclair QL. Modern, debugged, compatible operating systems, supporting more recent, reliable hardware include SMS/2, SMSQ/E and Minerva.
Home of the famous QL resources FAQ
Click Me for picture (36Kb GIF) Jonathan R Hudson is the author
of some moderately buggy SMS/QDOS programs. Jonathan lives in sunny
Hampshire after malingering in the Omani desert for many years. Caught
here having a sunny day off exploring the historic Nizwa Fort in the
Oman Interior. Nice mountains, not much desert.
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