QuantumLink RELOADED!

Join us every Wednesday night at 8 PM EST for a hangout in the 'Lobby' of the 'People Connection'!

Our primary IP addresses have changed; the new addresses are:

IPv4: 3.95.153.92
IPv6: 2600:1f18:3210:8800:e460:db37:1440:319e

It is reccomended that people use the FQDN of q-link.net rather than any IP address.

https://www.tpug.ca/world-of-commodore/world-of-commodore-2021/

Hybrid Physical And Virtual Edition!

Saturday December 4, 2021 (December 5th will be a virtual session with open discussions)
10 AM to 10 PM EST – via Zoom and YouTube

I had the pleasure of a attending the Vintage Computer Festival Midewest 16 held on September 11th & 12th at Waterford Banquets in Elmhurst, IL.

• My Photo & Video Galleries
• Past VCFMW Photo & Video Galleries

There seems to be some confusion about the status and availibility of various QuantumLink source code. Here is a quick list:

• I host a copy of the QuantumLink RELOADED! source code at: https://quantumlink.net/src/qlink. This is the code that runs on q-link.net:5190
• Habitat Preservation Project member ssalevan hosts a fork of the QuantumLink RELOADED! source code on GitHub at https://github.com/ssalevan/qlink. This fork contains code contributed from the Habitat Preservation Project's Hackathon.
• The original QuantumLink source code is proprietary software and currently is unavailable.

In July 2015, Cenbe started a rewrite of the Q-Link Reloaded code (now known as Q-Link "Rebooted"). By October, it was stable enough for Cenbe to start running a server.

The rewrite involves new database layer support for Postgres using Java JPA instead of raw SQL as well as massive code cleanup.

If you're interested in helping on the Q-Link Rebooted project, here are some things that need doing:

• testing The server needs stress testing: as many users as possible online at once, switching rooms, sending emails and OLMs, reading articles, &c.
• client setup docs We need good documentation on setting up the client, both on a real Commodore 64 and in current versions of the VICE emulator (on various operating systems).
• menu ID Many of the Q-Link Rebooted menus are, of course, only placeholders. If you were a Q-Link user and remember what some of those stubbed-out menu selections did, drop me a line: cenbe at kolabnow dot com. Maybe I can at least populate some of them with articles describing what they used to do.
• high-speed client In today's world of fast internet connections and disk images, it makes no sense to implement file transfers in Q-Link unless someone can come up with a high-speed patch for the client disk. We're talking about 19200 or 38400 bps, assuming a device like Dan Mackey's Link232.
• client disassembly There's probably more that can be learned from a complete disassembly of the client disk. For those of you who are good at this sort of thing, I'm sure it would make an interesting project.

PLEASE NOTE: q-link.net will continue to run the original QuantumLink RELOADED! code.