[GOODIE] A2Emulator

Duane Maxwell dmaxwell at san.rr.com
Tue Nov 20 23:18:36 UTC 2001


> Duane, this is great! Thanks for doing such a wonderful contribution!
>
> I don't have an Apple II.. but this is even better!
>
> Luciano.-

Well, if anyone can find that Smalltalk that runs on the Apple II, we can
have the rather surreal experience of running a Smalltalk on a virtual
machine running on an Apple II emulator written in Smalltalk running on a
virtual machine written in Smalltalk.

All those folks who are complaining that Squeak will never make it
commercially can now run the grand-daddy of all spreadsheets -VisiCalc!!
And think of all the educational titles for schools - forget all this EToy
feldercarb!!

If there's enough interest, I might go ahead and complete the joke -
simulation of the remaining 65C02 instructions, support for more of the
hardware and graphics modes, and perhaps a Slang/plugin version that would
likely run faster than the real thing.

Incidentally, the menu has a command to bring up a display of registers,
etc. for debugging 6502 programs - also resetting, halting, etc.

Cheers --

-- Duane





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