Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 00:03:16 10/24/03
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On October 23, 2003 at 17:41:55, Matthew Hull wrote:
>On October 22, 2003 at 23:35:41, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On October 22, 2003 at 17:44:00, Matthew Hull wrote:
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>>>On October 22, 2003 at 17:27:53, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 22, 2003 at 17:21:31, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I thank you for your worry about my expenses, but I do not consider to squander
>>>>>money when I purchase these things.
>>>>>Nevertheless you have a point: from a strictly rational point of view nobody
>>>>>here, not me either, NEEDS an stronger engine, but I am sure you share with me
>>>>>and everybody here a permanent search of even stronger engines althoug we are
>>>>>probably beaten by any 80's vintage programs 9 times of ten and 12 times of ten
>>>>>by any 90's vintage program.
>>>>>That's the nature of a hobby. They are always irrational. Anyway, what else you
>>>>>an do with that 30 bucks? Women worthy of the effort are asking lot more...
>>>>
>>>>It's like buying a Picasso or a Rembrandt. Who needs a Rembrandt, for crying
>>>>out loud?
>>>>
>>>>We buy the chess engines because we know that they will do something beautiful
>>>>and breathtaking.
>>>
>>>
>>>How breathtaking are your back levels of Fritz and Junior? At least my $400
>>>dollar 1988 Fidelity chess computer can serve as a kind of "objecto de arto".
>>>But an old floppy or CD for which you paid $80 or $150 doesn't age as
>>>gracefully, I'm betting.
>>>
>>>;)
>>>MH
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>I'd rather have the chess engine. Except that I could sell the Rembrandt and
>>>>get all the chess engines I could ever want.
>>>>
>>>>So if anyone has any unwanted Rembrandts, they can send them to me.
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>>I have a TRS-80 cassette of Sargon II (1979).
>>
>>I don't think it is still useable, but for me it is a treasure.
>
>Seems like I heard of a TRS-80 emulator. The trick is getting the software off
>the antique floppy onto your harddrive.
>
>MH
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>> Christophe
Actually the biggest problem is to find the image of the TRS-80 ROM.
Sargon II is on an audio cassette and it is possible (if the record is not too
much damaged) to extract the data by connecting a PC to a standard cassette
reader.
But I have not found the TRS-80 ROM image yet.
Christophe
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