Re: Survey: Do you run on II hardware or an emulator?

[Benjamin Boxman <boxman@math.tau.ac.il>]

Hi!

On 17 Mar 1999, Tom Phelps wrote:
> I primarily run on the following Apple II hardware:
> 
> 	IIgs
> 	//e
> 	//c
> 	][+
> 	][
> 	][ clone

Hmm... You didn't put all the possiblities down... I own an Elite //e
clone(128K, Dual language, it has a switch that changes the fonts to
Hebrew) -- I wasn't too sure of where that fits in the list above. 
I used it quite heavily until approx. 4 years ago, at some stage after
some of my fooling around, or perhaps I fooled around afterwards, the Disk
][ controller card burned out... It may be repairable(two capiciators)...
MAYBE... So anyways I mainly use it for checking stuff out now... Hardly
ever basicly (but it sits on my desk)

> I primarily run the following emulators:
> 
> 	Bernie ][ the Rescue
> 	Stop the Madness
> 	Catakig
> 	AppleWin
> 	Apple PC
> 	other: ____________

ApplePC mostly, got in the habit when I had a 486, and frankly it is the
best emulator currently for speed.
I addition I am starting to develop(mainly now in the research phase) an
Apple //e emulator, however I don't know how much the end result will be
desirable for the Apple // emulation core -- it will probably support all
the standard features(Disk ][ + langauge card(128K)), however I don't
think I will ever expand it to include anything more(Maybe
mockingboard...). It is going to be mostly a "technological showpeice"
;->, it is going to be written for speed, and will utilize JIT compilation
(probably Pentium-2 optimized code). It is mainly a learning project for
me -- an introduction to the world of emulation programming... Oh at the
moment it is going to be a 32-bit DOS program, mainly since alot of things
will be simplier
under dos.


Ben Boxman