QPC2

QPC II originated as an emulator for the Sinclair QL home computer, but is now the leading platform to run SMSQ/E, the successor of the Sinclair QDOS operating system. This emulator is written by Marcel Kilgus and it is the easier platform to use SMSQ/E if you already own an PC compatible computer.

Tony Tebby, the original QDOS developer, did write a successor to the original QDOS system called SMSQ/E. While the first very early test versions of QPC were based on QDOS all official releases are based on SMSQ/E and profit hugely of its features like:

• Highly efficient pre-emptive multitasking
  
• The popular SBasic programming language
  
• Higher screen resolution (up to 4096x4096 is supported)
  
• High colour (16 bit = 65536 colour) support
  
• Pointer environment windowing system
  
• Hotkey system
  
• Toolkit II built in
  
• Hard disc access (using a virtual hard disc file)
  
• Floppy disc access (QDOS, TOS and MS-DOS format)
  
• 8 serial ports with up to 115200 baud
  
• 4 printer ports
  

QPC does not use any SMSQ/E version for native hardware, instead Marcel Kilgus have adapted SMSQ/E (including all drivers) to QPC's needs so that both can work together as smoothly as possible.

Furthermore there are some features Marcel specifically added for QPC like:

• Access to native PC drives ("DOS device")
  
• Synchronization of Windows clipboard and Scrap extension
  
• Control of audio CDs
  
• Support for the SMSQ/E sampled sound system.
  
• The emulation used is highly optimized and thus very fast. QPC1 for example is written in 100% assembler code! This version, however, suffers under some limitations of compatibility. It cannot run directly under Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2 or whatever. It requires a special DOS environment to work properly.

The situation has changed with the release of QPC2. This is a native Win32 application that runs happily under Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000 and XP.

Title: QPCII
Language: ?
Author: Marcel Kilgus
Publisher: Jochen Merz
Platforms Suitable for: Windows 9x, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Commercial Status: Commercial
Sources Available from: n/a
Latest Version available from: http://www.kilgus.net/qpc/