Author: Pete Galati
Date: 21:24:05 04/23/00
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On April 23, 2000 at 23:33:56, Christophe Theron wrote: >On April 23, 2000 at 17:38:23, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On April 23, 2000 at 16:54:26, John Coffey wrote: >> >>>On April 23, 2000 at 16:15:41, Pete Galati wrote: >>> >>>>On April 23, 2000 at 13:31:31, Pierre Bourget wrote: >>>> >>>>>You can download old programs for Spectrum Z80 here: >>>>> >>>>>http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Goal/2054/notas/nota01.htm >>>>> >>>>>Pierre >>>> >>>>The old Spectrum Z80 computers have an enviable collection of prorams from it's >>>>era available to them. And to download all of the 18 programs only uses 284Kb >>>>of file space! >>>> >>>>I don't know anyone with a Spectrum Z80. >>>> >>>>Pete >>> >>> >>>I have one, but there is no way to get the data into the spectrum nor would >>>I care to. The only real advantage I can see is to use emulation for someone >>>who wants a less than master strength opponent. >>> >>>John Coffey >> >>Well, I don't actually need any more "less than master strength" programs. From >>that era we have Cyrus (in that collection) and Psion available for running in >>Dos, both are stronger than me I hate to say. >> >>Yeah, I was looking at that site and thinking, ok, but how do you get them from >>your pc to your Spectrum? There is probably a way to do that, but I'll never >>need to come up with it. >> >>Pete > > >I guess nobody will do that. You just download a Spectrum emulator and run it on >your PC... > > > Christophe I'd have to look for one, it might be interesting. I'd have to take a closer look at the site to see if they have one there. If not, Simtel might have one. What I noticed a while back was that in order to use a TRS-80 emulator you needed to get a ROM, and since that has a copyright, you pretty much needed the original computer but there were odd little ways around that. I have no idea if a Spectrum emulator would have similar obstacles. Pete
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