Hey folks,

I already mentioned, that I was thinking about the QemuX future the last month. I had some really great ideas for a newer QemuX version, including a much nicer design but also some really cool features. Since the Mac OS X port of qemu became more and more powerful, thanks to the great work by Mike Kronenberg, it became the groundwork for a powerful system emulator. The intel switch by Apple, announced for mid 2006, is not the end, but another great chance for QemuX integrating the powerful qemu system emulator. Luckily I decided to make all this happen - I am already working on a new QemuX version, which will be version 1.0, because of the fundamental changes in the UI.

Beginning to implement the new UI, I decided to rewrite QemuX from the scratch. Nearly one year after the initial version 0.1 and many new programming skills later I noticed that the programming design is not flexible enough and became more and more complicated throughout development. That will of course require some time and the work I have to put in my study at university, which began last week, will also consume some time, so I please you to be patient. I will inform you of the progress in the next weeks.

See you, cordney*

Maybe some of you were wondering about the comment below the QemuX downloads counter…

I’ll explain it here shortly: My brother asked me a while ago, how my QemuX downloads were going, so I looked up and told him that it were about 22,000 this time. He was like “Wow!” and promised to give me a free beer when downloads reach the 25,000. So please help me out and download download download!

[Update]: Thanks to you I will now get my free beer! What a pity that I am in Bochum for the beginning of my study and my brother is in Berlin… Will talk to him later ’bout that…

[2nd Update]: On christmas I finally got my beer, a nice Flensburger Pilsener. Thanks to all of you again for making this happen!