Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 21:51:30 04/23/00
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On April 24, 2000 at 00:24:05, Pete Galati wrote:
>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
Unfortunately yes, you will have the same problem.
Yesterday a friend of mine brought to me a CD full of emulators, including
TRS-80 and Spectrum. But the ROMs codes were not on the CD for Copyright
reasons.
You'll find an emulator for Spectrum easily on the Internet, but it will be more
difficult to get the ROM code.
I wanted to try the TRS-80 emulator, but so far I did not manage to do it. I
haven't got the ROM yet.
I wonder if emulating a hardware that IS copyrighted is a violation of
Copyright. If it is the case, then all these emulators are illegal.
Christophe
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