Re: Reply from Woz

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

phoenyx <quazar@dcnet2000.com> wrote:

>Supertimer wrote:
>
>> The emulator you are referring to is called SimSystem IIe
>> and actually, the feel of the emulator was remarkably like
>> a Laser.  I wonder if they didn't rip off Laser ROMs.  ;-)
>
>Yeah, that's the one. I used the system for a bit, but it was
>a little slow on my systems. I had heard elsewhere that it
>resembled the Laser, but they claim to have re-engineered
>the ROM. At that point in time, there was very little choice
>in emulators.

I believe them.  Notice the smiley after the last sentence
of my post.  ;-)  They pretty much proved their ROM was
original by providing the source code for users to look at.

If you paid the shareware fee, I think they actually had
some emulated cards you could insert into the emulator
"slots."  Mouse capability and expanded memory, for
example.  It is kind of sad that the emulators that use
ripped off Apple ROMs now rule.  The programmers of
SimSystem did a great job reverse engineering the
Apple IIe (or maybe the Laser?).

If I remember correctly, their floppy and HDV images
were also different from those of the emulators that now
rule.