Epson QX-10 Emulator

On 29 Sep 2007 at 23:03, Tony Duell wrote: But if I want to the fun of tracing video want to know _that_ floppy drives... I'm more interested in the software. Much of it was implemented in Forth and there were some very interesting aspects of the implementation. For my purposes, an accurate emulator is just as good (or even better) than the original. I don't need to worry about flakey components, or out-of-adjustment drives. I can run multiple sessions for comparison and even hack the emulator code to trap what I'm interested in. As far as "recreating the experience", I honestly don't think it's possible without the use of hynotism and some psychoactive drugs. I'm not who I was in 1982 (thankfully!) and any "gee-whiz" that the real thing had in 1982 is not going to make the same impression on me today. (256KB? Golly, my wife's digital camera packs more than 4 orders of magnitude more on a MicroSD card--and it's nonvolatile). I don't really care if it's implemented with chicken nuggets and used chewing gum--as long as it works and runs the software I'm interested in. So, hang me for a heretic. :) Cheers, Chuck