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Subject: Re: Revival: run your original Apple IIe chess programs on a Palm

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 09:51:39 07/03/03

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On July 02, 2003 at 22:29:03, Will Singleton wrote:

>On July 02, 2003 at 15:31:10, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>An Apple IIe emulator that runs on PalmOS devices is going to be available soon.
>>
>>If you have vintage chess programs like Sargon II, you are going to be able to
>>run them at native speed on a PalmOS device.
>>
>>More here:
>>
>>  http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=5577
>>
>>I think it would be interesting to establish a list of chess programs that were
>>available for that machine.
>>
>>I know there has been a version of Sargon II for that machine. What else?
>>
>>I seem to remember that Ed has an old Apple II buried somewhere. Some years ago
>>we used this forum to play a Chess Tiger vs Sargon II correspondence game. Maybe
>>Ed has used the Apple II (65C02 processor) to build his first versions of his
>>Mephisto Rebel series?
>>
>>Maybe the following programs have Apple II versions?
>>* Sfinks
>>* Mychess
>>* Microchess
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>One thing that's stumped me: how do I get my old apple dos diskettes transferred
>to disk images that emulators can read?
>
>Will



I guess it is possible to transfer the disks from a real Apple II to your PC
thru a serial connection.

Or maybe some utility can be used to read Apple 5" disks on a PC 5" drive.

For a majority of people I think they will just go out and find the files on the
net. But naturally that raises Copyright issues.

Reminder: old software does not become public domain automatically, and
Copyrights remains on old software.



    Christophe



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