Re: Reply from Woz

[phoenyx <quazar@dcnet2000.com>]

Supertimer wrote:

> 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.
>

I knew you were joking. Sorry, I sometimes sound to harsh
in my posts. I probably didn't use the emulator enough. At
the time it first came out, I was real busy running our BBS.
Between that and a full time job, my 'quality Apple time' was
very limited.

> 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?).
>

At the time I thought the shareware price was a little steep.
If I had been able to devote more time then, I would have
gladly paid the fee. As it turned out, I quit using it as per the
shareware limitations and forgot about it for quite a few years.

There were some incompatibilities with the emulator and it's
ROMS. However, many of the major applications seemed to
run fine. I'm not sure which system the tested against. I almost
think it was the Laser, or a beefed up IIe.

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

The disk images had a header but after that the data was
stored in the raw format. There were utilities which could
transfer images back and forth. I like the standards we have
now. It's easy to use the files between different emulators.

Now people will ask, why use different emulators. For one,
I like the visuals of ApplePC, very realistic. But when I need
printed output or to quickly transfer files between disk images
I use the Apple Oasis tools. The ability to print is a definite
bonus for Oasis and the disk utilities which run under
Windows are a joy to use.

Phoenyx