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From: chughes@maths.tcd.ie (Conrad Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: 6502 emulator running *Elite*!
Message-ID: <1990Dec17.190349.7466@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 17 Dec 90 19:03:49 GMT
References: <1513@tharr.UUCP>
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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In <1513@tharr.UUCP> gtoal@tharr.UUCP (Graham Toal) writes:

>I saw a sneak preview of a *new* 6502 emulator last week, -- not by
>Acorn, but I've been asked not to say by whom yet -- which is really
>superb: runs much faster than the Acorn one -- and *faster* than the
>BBC itself by a large chunk!

I've heard about such things too; problem is (so I'm told) that Acorn aren't
all that anxious to give the authors rights to the Beeb ROM; similarly an
emulator for the Sinclair Spectrum ran into trouble because of Amstrad, who
own the rights to those ROMs... Do you know if Acorn have changed their mind
on the subject?

Conrad
-- 
experience teaches silence terrifies people the most - Bob Dylan
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