Author: Pete Galati
Date: 22:34:09 04/23/00
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On April 24, 2000 at 00:51:30, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 I would have to download some of the files and look at it again because my memory's getting a bit foggy about the subject, but at Simtel, at their Emulators to run in Dos page http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/msdos/emulate.html I think that this one has a way that you can make your own ROM for TRS-80 $ CoCo, and then one of the other emulators mentioned this one as being a possible way around the ROM problem. "Dragon/CoCo Emulator & Debugger v2.02 EGA 486+" but I might be wrong about which one that is. It would posibly be a copyright problem for you to have a ROM for a computer that you did not purchase, but if you bought the computer that you are using the ROM from for your emulator (in _your_ pc computer) then I don't think you have a problem because you would afterall own that copy of the ROM. The _problem_ would be if you created an emulator and distributed it _with_ the ROM. So your friend's CD wouldn't have them. That's irritating, it would be nice if someone would find a way to get ROMs from completly obselete computers released to public domain. I'm not holding my breath. Pete
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