Re: Emulating an Apple 3?

["Bryan Villados" <news002@macgeek.org>]

You have to remember, though, that the first II+ emulator for MS-DOS was
written in the mid to late 1980's, a period when MS-DOS was still being
used, and it had a larger market share than MS Windows 2.x. So YES, writing
a II+ emulator for MS-DOS was very well worth it during its time. An
application written in MS-DOS was must snappier than one written in Windows
1.x or 2.x. And, the II+ emulator (or at least the first one I experimented
with in the late 80's) was written in 80286 assembly language... Writing in
assembly language using MS-DOS was much easier than writing it in Windows
2.x (I wrote printer drivers for Microsoft back then). If one was written
today with all of these GUIs available, I'd say it was a waste of time. You
must consider the time period for these things.

I do agree that writing an emulator for the Apple /// has no "productive"
purpose. However, I support emulators 110-percent for its academic and
historical purposes, and the experience it would bring to our younger people
who never saw these computers. I think EVERY computer ever made should be
emulated somehow so that newer generations can experience them. It's free
most of the time, you don't have to find scarce parts to keep the things
running, and anyone in the world can experience them.

--- Bryan
http://www.macgeek.org/


"katie did." <katie.did@pinku.zzn.com> wrote in message
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> johnson@tmfc.net (johnsonlam) wrote in message
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> > IMO, since Apple /// was not majority in the market. Maybe not worth
> > to put resources into Apple ///.
>
> Any more than it's worth it to program a ][+ emulator in MS-DOS, eh?
>
> -kd.