19 Jun
1997
19 Jun
'97
3:29 a.m.
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Doug Spence wrote:
There's something fun about running a TRS-80 (or other 8-bit) emulator
under a PC emulator on a Unix box. Levels of abstraction...
--
Ward Griffiths
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within
the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Wolfe
Please stop assuming I've joined the Evil Empire.
My only PC compatibles
are my A1060 Sidecar on my Amiga 1000, which no longer has a 5.25" floppy
drive as I put a hard drive in its bay, and a Tandy 1000EX, which has no
way of communicating with anything else that I own because ALL it has is
a 360K floppy drive.
Whaddaya mean the 1000EX can't communicate. It's got a serial port.
Where's your null-modem? The single most important tool in the _world_
for anybody with incompatible systems. Even when I was a child of thirty
with a Color Computer, a TRS-80 4P, a TRS-80 Mod 16, a Tandy 2000 and an
AT&T 3B1, my null-modems were the only to move stuff. (It was also the
best way to use the Tandy 2000 for its two purposes: terminal to the
Xenix and Unix boxes -- great keyboard -- and as a 512k serial/parallel
converter and print buffer between the other machines and my sole MX-80
printer).
Emulator BBS
01284 760851
Keeping 8-Bit ALIVE
Emulators can be fun, but I've never met an emulator that was as good as
the real thing. Excepting Macintosh emulators, of course. :)