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From: borgen@sfd.uit.no (Borge Nost)
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Subject: Re: BBC micro emulator ?
Message-ID: <1990May7.123108.21532@hod.uit.no>
Date: 7 May 90 12:31:08 GMT
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In article <17780@ultima.cs.uts.oz> vilkas@ultima.cs.uts.oz (Peter Sumskas) writes:
>new educational systems endorsed by the English education department. They
>are a LOT faster than the Amiga (due to their RISC architecture) and come
       ^^^ some might disagree about a LOT

>
>By the way as indication of the Arch's speed. Virus on the amiga, written in 
>assembly language, was a conversion of a program called Lander that came
>bundled with the Archimedes when purchased. Virus is a little bit flashier,
>but not much.
>
>The real point of this is that Lander was written in BBC Basic on the Archimedes

	NO!

	This is a rumour that I thought was killed a long time ago. I do
not know which language it was written in, but machine code or C (both?) is
a good guess methinks. Lander was a demo which later was made into a full
game named Zarch(I think). It was programmed by David Braben(correct any
mistakes), which was one of the two authors of the original Elite(on the BBC).
>
>And it flew along (it is almost the splitting image of the Amiga version).

	Hmm...It *was* slicker than on my stock B2000, and the spaceship
was a little better coloured, but I didn't think I was anything like a
magnitude faster.

>Dregs
>
>Iron Wolf
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