Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 21:19:53 07/04/03
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On July 03, 2003 at 15:58:14, Will Singleton wrote:
>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.
Well if it is your own code, then no problem.
Actually I do not know much about this emulator. But I think that Apple II
emulators exist in vast number for various platforms, so what the others do to
reload their old disks will certainly also work for this emulator.
Christophe
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