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====== QPC2 ====== {{qlwiki:qpc2.jpg?direct |QPC2 Logo}} [[QPC2|QPC II]] originated as an emulator for the [[qlwiki:Sinclair QL home computer]], but is now the leading platform to run [[qlwiki:SMSQE]], the successor of the Sinclair [[qlwiki:QDOS]] operating system. This emulator is written by [[qlwiki:Marcel Kilgus]] and it is the easier platform to use [[qlwiki:SMSQE]] if you already own an PC compatible computer. [[qlwiki:Tony Tebby]], the original [[qlwiki:QDOS]] developer, did write a successor to the original [[qlwiki:QDOS]] system called [[qlwiki:SMSQE]]. While the first very early test versions of [[qlwiki:QPC]] were based on [[qlwiki:QDOS]] all official releases are based on [[qlwiki:SMSQE]] 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\\ [[qlwiki:QPC]] does not use any [[qlwiki:SMSQE]] version for native hardware, instead [[qlwiki:Marcel Kilgus]] have adapted [[qlwiki:SMSQE]] (including all drivers) to [[qlwiki:QPC]]'s needs so that both can work together as smoothly as possible. Furthermore there are some features Marcel specifically added for [[qlwiki: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. [[QPC|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 [[qlwiki:QPC2]]. This is a native Win32 application that runs happily under Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Windows 10. Linux users may also enjoy QPC2 as it runs perfectly under [[https://www.winehq.org|Wine]] apart from not being able to access floppy discs -- inbuilt or USB -- but it can read floppy _images_ created using [[qltools]] or the Linux ''dd'' utility. Thanks to Marcel's innovative [[https://www.kilgus.net/qpcprint/|QPCPrint]] you can capture the printer output from QPC2 and easily print it from any connected Windows printer. ----