Re: Apple Emulator for Palm

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@mac.com>]

In article <20010818025208.11695.00001219@mb-fz.aol.com>, supertimer@aol.com
(Supertimer) wrote:

> Dragontat <dragontat@adelphia.net> wrote:
>
>>I dont really know where else to look for info so I though I'd give it
>>a shot here. Does anyone know if there is a way to play Apple II games
>>on a palm pilot or if there is a emulator out there on the market that
>>will allow one to do this? I miss my Apple after my wife made me throw
>>it out but I managed to hide the software I had. Any help or info
>>would be greatly appreciated.

> Palm's processor doesn't have the power to do such emulation.
> Palm and clone handhelds are only on the average 16Mhz btw.
> However, many of the freeware/sharware games for PalmOS
> appear to be ports from the Apple II era.  At least they look and
> sound a lot like the 8-bit Apple II titles (Galaxian, Space Invaders,
> and so on).
>
> Seeing the screen resolution, speed, and software of the palm,
> you have to wonder...Apple really missed the ball when they
> didn't exploit the MegaII chip by making a handheld II.  When
> combined with the 20Mhz 65C816 processor, the results
> would be quite spectacular.

Someone recently released Taipan for Palm, based on the Apple II game. There
is an Apple II emulator call PsiApple available for the Psion PDA, but I
believe it's fairly slow, it can't run at full speed. Certainly some PDAs
would be more than fast enough. The last Newton released (the 2100, back in
1996) has a 160MHz processor and 4MB of RAM. Some of the recent releases
from other companies have finally caught up with it and now have colour
screens too.

--
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

Apple II - Future Cop:LAPD - iMac Voodoo2 - Warcraft II
http://homepage.mac.com/rojaws
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