It's a lovely little machine, and since November there is also a "core" you can load into the FPGA which turns it into a (heavily upgraded) Sinclair QL.

This makes it one of the more affordable ways to get new QL-compatible hardware, 40 years after the machine launched. It has lots of RAM, 16-bit colour graphics, sound, and more. It runs Aurora, one of the 2 FOSS forks of the QL OS.

Work is underway on enhancing the core further, possibly to a 68030 with 16MB of RAM and true-colour graphics (if I remember rightly!) and to improve integration of the upgraded capabilities with the OS and SuperBASIC.

There is some hope it might be able to run SMSQ/E, the other FOSS fork of the original QDOS OS, and that comes with a choice of desktop GUIs.

It's a deeply idiosyncratic OS (never mind predating Windows, it predates the Apple Macintosh) and I have not yet learned to drive it, but I like the idea that my 21st century Spectrum is now also a rather capable full-16-bit machine with a multitasking OS.

The QL is largely forgotten now except by enthusiasts, but it was arguably the first multitasking home/small-business microcomputer, and there is new QL-compatible hardware still on sale: the Q68 machine, also based on an FPGA.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/16/ql_legacy_at_40/

Neither Aurora nor SMSQ/E is seeing much development now, sadly, but then I believe they're in hand-written 680x0 assembly language, and they only run on a handful of long-obsolete hardware, basically QL clones and the Atari ST.

It's an interesting OS and I wish it had been more successful. I also wish that SuperBASIC had been ported to other OSes, since the source is available. I think I'd quite like SuperBASIC for Linux.