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Subject: Re: Happy to know Ruffian will become commercial, because....

Author: m.d.hurd

Date: 12:17:40 10/25/03

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On October 24, 2003 at 03:03:16, Christophe Theron wrote:

>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:
>>>
>>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>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
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    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


Hello Christophe

Give this a try : http://www.tim-mann.org/xtrs.html

Regards

Mike



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