Solace: Sol Anachronistic Computer Emulation

Like the subject line says -- I've written an emulator for the Sol computer. It is a Win32 application and should run fine on any pentium-class machine. It currently doesn't support any disk drives, the cassette port, the serial or parallel ports. Still, you can do a surprising number of things, especially since you can "download" programs via a menu (much faster than the cassette interface!) Yes, you can run TARG, although I haven't yet tried placing an AM radio next to my computer to listen for the sound effects. :-) Solace is a work in progress, but it has already seen a fair amount of beta testing, including some by the list's own Bob Stek (Saver of Lost Sols). The emulator is quite simple to run, and it doesn't require any nasty installation procedures, modifications of the registry, etc. Just unzip it and run. If you are interested, go check it out (including a screen shot) here: http://www.thebattles.net/sol20/solace.html If you get tired of the programs that come with the ZIP file, download some more from the Sol archive: http://www.thebattles.net/sol20/solpgms.html And as long as I'm here, if you have any Sol docs or programs that you could share with the Sol archive, let me know about it. Thanks. ----- Jim Battle == frustum(a)pacbell.net