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

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 12:58:14 07/03/03

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On July 03, 2003 at 12:51:39, Christophe Theron wrote:

>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.

Well, if you come across anything that might work, I'd appreciate a note.

>
>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.
>

I wouldn't know about that, I was referring to my own code.

>
>
>    Christophe




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