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From: torbenm@freke.diku.dk (Torben [gidius Mogensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: 6502 emulator running *Elite*!
Message-ID: <1990Dec18.122153.5909@diku.dk>
Date: 18 Dec 90 12:21:53 GMT
References: <1513@tharr.UUCP> <1990Dec17.190349.7466@maths.tcd.ie>
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chughes@maths.tcd.ie (Conrad Hughes) writes:

>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?

There is a solution to that problem. Since Acorns 6502 emulator is
supplied on the Welcome disks, The ROM images are available to all. It
should be possible (and not too difficult) to write an install program
that extracts these images from the Welcome disks and the new
simulator from the installation disk to produce an application
directory, which can be copied to the work disk.

Thus, the simulator need not be supplied with the ROM images. This is
similar to Mac portable clones not being supplied with ROMS - you
extract the roms from your stationary Mac, and install them in your
portable.

Torben Mogensen (torbenm@diku.dk)