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Subject: Re: Old programs for download

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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