Author: Don Dailey
Date: 15:02:05 12/28/97
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On December 28, 1997 at 02:46:16, Christophe Theron wrote: > >On December 27, 1997 at 17:35:15, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>I have the Sargon Z80 book too. It's antiquities I will always keep >>it. In fact I started on the TRS-80 too. 1.77 Mhz and 16 Kb Ram to >>be precisely. I believe it was 1980. My wife said I needed a hobby >>and so I did :) > >I wrote my first chess program in assembler on a TRS-80, because I >couldn't win myself against Sargon II in 1980. My TRS program never won >against Sargon anyway. > >I still have the Sargon II cassette (audio tape), and I have recently >found a TRS emulator for PC. BUT the TRS-80 level II ROM code is not >delivered with the emulator. Argh! > >I've been waiting for my revenge against Sargon II for 17 years now. > >Ed, do you still have your TRS? I'm desperately trying to get the ROM >code! Just that, an I'll be able to crush that @##ç\% Sargon II! > >Maybe it's better not to try the experiment. Imagine Sargon winning >against Tiger? Or against Rebel??? > >But I'm not sure to be able to live without the answer... :) > > > Christophe We should try to get the rom code and emulator working. I think I have some contacts here at MIT that can help me. I wonder if there is a legal issue with the ROM code? I don't see why this should be a problem but you never know. Also we could contact Radio Shack and see what they have to say. I'm really interested in getting a full blown TRS-80 emulator working. But why would anyone produce an emulator without the rom code? Maybe we should contact the emulator author and find out what the story is. Finally, if you had one could you decode the tape? I have my doubts the emulator would work for this (where would you hook up the cassette?) Presumably there would be a file format for simulating tape loaded software. I never had a disk system on my trs-80 and I'll bet a lot of others didn't either. I always loaded SargonII from audio tape. I final issue is how good is the tape after all these years? Did you store it well and what is the lifetime of an audio tape? -- Don
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