On 7/6/08 11:43 AM, in article 080706165509@arcade.demon.co.uk, "Jonathan
Graham Harston" wrote:

>> Message-ID:
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>> I think I'm missing the picture on the emulators...
>
> With an emulator I can work at work when I'm not physically sat in
> front of my main system at home.
>
> ...and I don't have any space for a hardware PDP-11
>

For me, the draw is two-fold. First, I'm too lazy sometimes to shuffle off
to the lab to test something out on my IMSAI or my Altair 8800b.

Second, I find them useful to get me out of a chicken-and-egg problems. For
example, I used MyZ80 to build a new CP/M 2.2 system for my IMSAI from
scratch because the IMSAI has a disk controller and memory combination for
which I couldn't find a pre-made disk image to work with. Now I have a nice,
working system that I bootstrapped using emulators.

Having said that, I find them a lot of fun. I never used an Atari 800 or
Sinclair Spectrum much as a kid, but I can now, without having to buy them
on eBay. No, it's not a substitute for having the real thing, but it enables
me to play around with and learn about different machines I had no previous
exposure to, all for little or no cost.

Since I fall in to the emulator-author category, I also like to see the work
of other emulator authors. It helps me to see how others have attacked
certain problems, learn from coding styles, and examine other user interface
layouts.

Rich
http://www.altair32.com

On 2008-07-06 19:17:36 -0500, "Richard A. Cini" said:

> On 7/6/08 11:43 AM, in article 080706165509@arcade.demon.co.uk, "Jonathan
> Graham Harston" wrote:
>
>>> Message-ID:
>>
>>> I think I'm missing the picture on the emulators...
>>
>> With an emulator I can work at work when I'm not physically sat in
>> front of my main system at home.
>>
>> ...and I don't have any space for a hardware PDP-11
>>
>
> For me, the draw is two-fold. First, I'm too lazy sometimes to shuffle off
> to the lab to test something out on my IMSAI or my Altair 8800b.
>
> Second, I find them useful to get me out of a chicken-and-egg problems. For
> example, I used MyZ80 to build a new CP/M 2.2 system for my IMSAI from
> scratch because the IMSAI has a disk controller and memory combination for
> which I couldn't find a pre-made disk image to work with. Now I have a nice,
> working system that I bootstrapped using emulators.
>
> Having said that, I find them a lot of fun. I never used an Atari 800 or
> Sinclair Spectrum much as a kid, but I can now, without having to buy them
> on eBay. No, it's not a substitute for having the real thing, but it enables
> me to play around with and learn about different machines I had no previous
> exposure to, all for little or no cost.
>
> Since I fall in to the emulator-author category, I also like to see the work
> of other emulator authors. It helps me to see how others have attacked
> certain problems, learn from coding styles, and examine other user interface
> layouts.
>
> Rich
> http://www.altair32.com

Speaking of myz80, does anyone know if S. Cran is still around?

Moreover, has this great little prog ever been disassembled, or
sourced? It would certainly be fine to have this one on a linux or OS
X system.

H

cat@theshack.org wrote:

> Speaking of myz80, does anyone know if S. Cran is still around?

I just did some searching, and http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/568/109 looks like it's the one.
--
Herbert Oppmann, Herforder Str. 40, 90425 Nürnberg, Germany

Herbert Oppmann wrote:
> cat@theshack.org wrote:
>
>> Speaking of myz80, does anyone know if S. Cran is still around?
>
> I just did some searching, and http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/568/109 looks like it's the one.

Hi Herbert,

you seem to be right, but in order to contact him,
you have to pay a lot of bucks to "linkedin"!

Greetings,

Uwe.