Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!argentina.crd.ge.com!rankins From: rankins@argentina.crd.ge.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: RE: Apple //+ emulator Message-ID: <6346@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 27 Mar 90 16:39:56 GMT Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: rankins@argentina.crd.ge.com () Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 36 In article <7429@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt4662b@prism.gatech.EDU (BRANHAM,JOSEPH FRANKLIN) writes: >I've hit upon a wondrous discovery. A chap at apple has sent me a MUCH better >apple // simulator which is written for BSD4.2 4.3. I've not gotten a chance >to compile it, but the code is commented and much better structured than >the one which was recently poseted to xanth. > >I've placed it via anonymous ftp at xanth.cs.odu.edu >in incoming/amiga. >The file name is something like apple2.tar.Zuu and it is a uuencoded, tarred >and compressed file. > Was anyone able to get a copy of this before it got pulled from the site? Apparently, the code contained a copy of the Apple II+ ROM code and therefore wasn't supposed to be distributed. Geez, you'd think for a machine as old as the Apple II+, Apple would be willing to make the ROMs public by now. I can understand not wanting the ROMs public for a machine they are still selling, but I doubt anyone's going to steal the II+ ROMs and try to market a II+ clone. (maybe they would in some third world or communist contries, but Apple doesn't market there so what would they care?) Methinks Apple is a bit too paranoid and posessive about their stuff sometimes. Oh well, I wish I could have gotten a copy before it was removed (I tried yesterday after I saw the post, but I couldn't connect to xanth for some reason at that time). Could anyone who might have gotten a copy before it got pulled please email a copy to me? Thanks in advance, Ray Ray Rankins |(518) 387-7340 | INTERNET: rankins@argentina.crd.ge.com 2 Moonglow Rd. |(518) 583-3320 | COMPUSERVE: 71131,3236 Gansevoort, NY 12831 | | AmericaOnline: RayRankins