Re: Another cassette: Apple-80 (at least, it is real)

[Egan Ford <datajerk@gmail.com>]

On 11/27/12 3:51 PM, Antoine Vignau wrote:
> Yep, it is real, for once. Readable, digitized and now available at
> http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/, my latest acquisition: Apple-80, an 8080
> simulator for the Apple II.

As always, thanks for sharing!

I created a small benchmark to test the performance (computing Pi to 100 
digits).

Pi100 takes 1.62 seconds with a 2 Mhz 8080.

1.51 seconds with a 2 MHz Z-80 SoftCard (same 8080 binary).

With Apple80 @ 1Mhz, 233 seconds (same 8080 binary with a modified 
echo).  ~144x wall clock time.  I originally wanted to do 1000, but it 
would have taken ~6.5 hours.

Native 6502 performance for 100 digits is 1.16 seconds.

Kudos for Dann's 1979 (a year before the SoftCard) achievement.

> I had a discussion with him about his software in October after my purchase

Is he still taking bug reports?  :-)

> you will also find his interesting comment about the software and the 
> "ugly" manual.

I created a nicer .txt of the manual I can send to you.

Thanks again.