I don't own a real Commodore 64 so emulate it with the VICE emulator. I
also found a program in my collection which has "Spectrum Emulator
(1985)" in its name. But although the program loads it just doesn't
start. RUN just returns the cursor.
So I wonder if this is for real. Has anybody ever had a working Spectrum emulator for the Commodore 64? Not important if on the real machine or emulated itself.
I was reading a British game magazine from June 1984 (is available as PDF
on archive.org - if anyone cares I can try to find the download address) where an article says:
| Video Vault International are bringing out the Commodore Emulator for
| £12.95. Once loaded into your machine, it emulates the Sinclair
| operating system and allows you to run your favourite Sinclair
| games. Commodore 64 owners should soon be able to load and run Spectrum
| software on their machines [...]
I was curious if this works. Especially since a C64 has a 6510 CPU and a Spectrum an Z80.
I don't own a real Commodore 64 so emulate it with the VICE emulator. I
also found a program in my collection which has "Spectrum Emulator
(1985)" in its name. But although the program loads it just doesn't
start. RUN just returns the cursor.
So I wonder if this is for real. Has anybody ever had a working Spectrum emulator for the Commodore 64? Not important if on the real machine or emulated itself.
In article <8737rn4jkc.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach <march.10.ankman@spamgourmet.net> wrote:
I was reading a British game magazine from June 1984 (is available as PDF
on archive.org - if anyone cares I can try to find the download address)
where an article says:
| Video Vault International are bringing out the Commodore Emulator for
| £12.95. Once loaded into your machine, it emulates the Sinclair
| operating system and allows you to run your favourite Sinclair
| games. Commodore 64 owners should soon be able to load and run Spectrum
| software on their machines [...]
I was curious if this works. Especially since a C64 has a 6510 CPU and a
Spectrum an Z80.
I don't own a real Commodore 64 so emulate it with the VICE emulator. I
also found a program in my collection which has "Spectrum Emulator
(1985)" in its name. But although the program loads it just doesn't
start. RUN just returns the cursor.
So I wonder if this is for real. Has anybody ever had a working Spectrum
emulator for the Commodore 64? Not important if on the real machine or
emulated itself.
The CPU difference is irrelevant (since that's what "emulation" means)
... BUT whether such an emulation would be fast enough to be usable is another question.
I've never heard of that emulator. It maybe be that it was partly
hardware and requires the emulation cartridge to be plugged into a real
C64 to work.
In comp.sys.cbm Andreas Kohlbach <march.10.ankman@spamgourmet.net> wrote:
I don't own a real Commodore 64 so emulate it with the VICE emulator. I
also found a program in my collection which has "Spectrum Emulator
(1985)" in its name. But although the program loads it just doesn't
start. RUN just returns the cursor.
So I wonder if this is for real. Has anybody ever had a working Spectrum
emulator for the Commodore 64? Not important if on the real machine or
emulated itself.
I rember a spectrum emulator for sure on my C64. It was slow and probably
the emulation was not complete or perfect. I used a few times to run
some spectrum basic programs (from what I can remember of something happening 30 years ago).
If you are really patient, I might find the right floppy disk where it is recorded (one day and if luck happens).
Your Name wrote on 18. March 2016:
In article <8737rn4jkc.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach <march.10.ankman@spamgourmet.net> wrote:
I was reading a British game magazine from June 1984 (is available as PDF >> on archive.org - if anyone cares I can try to find the download address) >> where an article says:
| Video Vault International are bringing out the Commodore Emulator for
| £12.95. Once loaded into your machine, it emulates the Sinclair
| operating system and allows you to run your favourite Sinclair
| games. Commodore 64 owners should soon be able to load and run Spectrum >> | software on their machines [...]
I was curious if this works. Especially since a C64 has a 6510 CPU and a >> Spectrum an Z80.
I don't own a real Commodore 64 so emulate it with the VICE emulator. I
also found a program in my collection which has "Spectrum Emulator
(1985)" in its name. But although the program loads it just doesn't
start. RUN just returns the cursor.
So I wonder if this is for real. Has anybody ever had a working Spectrum >> emulator for the Commodore 64? Not important if on the real machine or
emulated itself.
The CPU difference is irrelevant (since that's what "emulation" means)
... BUT whether such an emulation would be fast enough to be usable is another question.
Of course. You probably could emulate an x86 CPU on a C64. But the speed
is the problem. That's why I mentioned the "way different" CPU before.
I've never heard of that emulator. It maybe be that it was partly
hardware and requires the emulation cartridge to be plugged into a real
C64 to work.
The article doesn't say. Will see if I find the next issue of that
magazine if it's mentioned there with more detail.
In article <87pouqgqt7.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach <march.10.ankman@spamgourmet.net> wrote:
Your Name wrote on 18. March 2016:
In article <8737rn4jkc.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach
<march.10.ankman@spamgourmet.net> wrote:
I was reading a British game magazine from June 1984 (is available as PDF >>>> on archive.org - if anyone cares I can try to find the download address) >>>> where an article says:
| Video Vault International are bringing out the Commodore Emulator for >>>> | £12.95. Once loaded into your machine, it emulates the Sinclair
| operating system and allows you to run your favourite Sinclair
| games. Commodore 64 owners should soon be able to load and run Spectrum >>>> | software on their machines [...]
I was curious if this works. Especially since a C64 has a 6510 CPU and a >>>> Spectrum an Z80.
I don't own a real Commodore 64 so emulate it with the VICE emulator. I >>>> also found a program in my collection which has "Spectrum Emulator
(1985)" in its name. But although the program loads it just doesn't
start. RUN just returns the cursor.
So I wonder if this is for real. Has anybody ever had a working Spectrum >>>> emulator for the Commodore 64? Not important if on the real machine or >>>> emulated itself.
The CPU difference is irrelevant (since that's what "emulation" means)
... BUT whether such an emulation would be fast enough to be usable is
another question.
Of course. You probably could emulate an x86 CPU on a C64. But the speed
is the problem. That's why I mentioned the "way different" CPU before.
I've never heard of that emulator. It maybe be that it was partly
hardware and requires the emulation cartridge to be plugged into a real
C64 to work.
The article doesn't say. Will see if I find the next issue of that
magazine if it's mentioned there with more detail.
Of course the real question is why would anyone want to emulate a
crappy toy like the Spectrum on a real computer like the C64?!?
Then again, even today some people are still stupid enough to want to
emulate / virtualise crappy Windoze garbage on their Apple Mac
computer.
Not really that important. If by chance it crosses your path though it'll
be nice. :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Apple_Inc.
Dumb sheeple might not care, but I do.
In article <87pouqgqt7.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach <march.10.ankman@spamgourmet.net> wrote:
hardware and requires the emulation cartridge to be plugged into a real
C64 to work.
The article doesn't say. Will see if I find the next issue of that
magazine if it's mentioned there with more detail.
Of course the real question is why would anyone want to emulate a
crappy toy like the Spectrum on a real computer like the C64?!?
On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 16:24:00 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach <march.10.ankman@spamgourmet.net> wrote:
Not really that important. If by chance it crosses your path though it'll >>be nice. :-)
Not sure it is what you are looking for, but I found this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z4olweuvsaanknw/spectrum.zip?dl=0
In article <56edfe76$0$1513$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>, Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Apple_Inc.
Dumb sheeple might not care, but I do.
I can't even be bothered clicking on a the link to an idiotic Wikipedia
page - the whole website is full of lies, misinformation, and complete
crap thanks to allowing any moron to post so-called "facts" without
them actually being checked properly (and no, another moron "checking"
them doesn't count either). :-\
On 20/03/2016 11:17 AM, Your Name wrote:
In article <56edfe76$0$1513$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>, Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Apple_Inc.
Dumb sheeple might not care, but I do.
I can't even be bothered clicking on a the link to an idiotic Wikipedia page - the whole website is full of lies, misinformation, and complete
crap thanks to allowing any moron to post so-called "facts" without
them actually being checked properly (and no, another moron "checking"
them doesn't count either). :-\
Denial doesn't make the truth go away.
In article <8737rn4jkc.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach <march.10.ankman@spamgourmet.net> wrote:
I was reading a British game magazine from June 1984 (is available as PDF
on archive.org - if anyone cares I can try to find the download address)
where an article says:
| Video Vault International are bringing out the Commodore Emulator for
| £12.95. Once loaded into your machine, it emulates the Sinclair
| operating system and allows you to run your favourite Sinclair
| games. Commodore 64 owners should soon be able to load and run Spectrum
| software on their machines [...]
I was curious if this works. Especially since a C64 has a 6510 CPU and a
Spectrum an Z80.
I don't own a real Commodore 64 so emulate it with the VICE emulator. I
also found a program in my collection which has "Spectrum Emulator
(1985)" in its name. But although the program loads it just doesn't
start. RUN just returns the cursor.
So I wonder if this is for real. Has anybody ever had a working Spectrum
emulator for the Commodore 64? Not important if on the real machine or
emulated itself.
The CPU difference is irrelevant (since that's what "emulation" means)
... BUT whether such an emulation would be fast enough to be usable is another question.
I've never heard of that emulator. It maybe be that it was partly
hardware and requires the emulation cartridge to be plugged into a real
C64 to work.
On 20/03/2016 5:01 AM, Your Name wrote:
In article <87pouqgqt7.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach <march.10.ankman@spamgourmet.net> wrote:
Your Name wrote on 18. March 2016:
In article <8737rn4jkc.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach
<march.10.ankman@spamgourmet.net> wrote:
I was reading a British game magazine from June 1984 (is available as PDF
on archive.org - if anyone cares I can try to find the download address) >>>> where an article says:
| Video Vault International are bringing out the Commodore Emulator for >>>> | £12.95. Once loaded into your machine, it emulates the Sinclair
| operating system and allows you to run your favourite Sinclair
| games. Commodore 64 owners should soon be able to load and run Spectrum
| software on their machines [...]
I was curious if this works. Especially since a C64 has a 6510 CPU and a >>>> Spectrum an Z80.
I don't own a real Commodore 64 so emulate it with the VICE emulator. I >>>> also found a program in my collection which has "Spectrum Emulator
(1985)" in its name. But although the program loads it just doesn't
start. RUN just returns the cursor.
So I wonder if this is for real. Has anybody ever had a working Spectrum >>>> emulator for the Commodore 64? Not important if on the real machine or >>>> emulated itself.
The CPU difference is irrelevant (since that's what "emulation" means) >>> ... BUT whether such an emulation would be fast enough to be usable is >>> another question.
Of course. You probably could emulate an x86 CPU on a C64. But the speed >> is the problem. That's why I mentioned the "way different" CPU before.
I've never heard of that emulator. It maybe be that it was partly
hardware and requires the emulation cartridge to be plugged into a real >>> C64 to work.
The article doesn't say. Will see if I find the next issue of that
magazine if it's mentioned there with more detail.
Of course the real question is why would anyone want to emulate a
crappy toy like the Spectrum on a real computer like the C64?!?
Then again, even today some people are still stupid enough to want to emulate / virtualise crappy Windoze garbage on their Apple Mac
computer.
Their stupidity was fully realised the day they chose an Apple product
in the first place...
In article <56ede296$0$1535$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>, Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> wrote:
On 20/03/2016 5:01 AM, Your Name wrote:
In article <87pouqgqt7.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach
<march.10.ankman@spamgourmet.net> wrote:
Your Name wrote on 18. March 2016:
In article <8737rn4jkc.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach
<march.10.ankman@spamgourmet.net> wrote:
I was reading a British game magazine from June 1984 (is available as PDF
on archive.org - if anyone cares I can try to find the download address) >>>>>> where an article says:
| Video Vault International are bringing out the Commodore Emulator for >>>>>> | £12.95. Once loaded into your machine, it emulates the Sinclair
| operating system and allows you to run your favourite Sinclair
| games. Commodore 64 owners should soon be able to load and run Spectrum
| software on their machines [...]
I was curious if this works. Especially since a C64 has a 6510 CPU and a >>>>>> Spectrum an Z80.
I don't own a real Commodore 64 so emulate it with the VICE emulator. I >>>>>> also found a program in my collection which has "Spectrum Emulator >>>>>> (1985)" in its name. But although the program loads it just doesn't >>>>>> start. RUN just returns the cursor.
So I wonder if this is for real. Has anybody ever had a working Spectrum >>>>>> emulator for the Commodore 64? Not important if on the real machine or >>>>>> emulated itself.
The CPU difference is irrelevant (since that's what "emulation" means) >>>>> ... BUT whether such an emulation would be fast enough to be usable is >>>>> another question.
Of course. You probably could emulate an x86 CPU on a C64. But the speed >>>> is the problem. That's why I mentioned the "way different" CPU before. >>>>
I've never heard of that emulator. It maybe be that it was partly
hardware and requires the emulation cartridge to be plugged into a real >>>>> C64 to work.
The article doesn't say. Will see if I find the next issue of that
magazine if it's mentioned there with more detail.
Of course the real question is why would anyone want to emulate a
crappy toy like the Spectrum on a real computer like the C64?!?
Then again, even today some people are still stupid enough to want to
emulate / virtualise crappy Windoze garbage on their Apple Mac
computer.
Their stupidity was fully realised the day they chose an Apple product
in the first place...
Yep, it's really "stupid" to want a computer that works, doesn't suffer idiotic malware and viruses, doesn't look like the cheap knock-off of
someone else's work that it is, ...
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