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From: root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: C-64 Pet Emulator
Message-ID: <6898.27CDE0FA@zswamp.fidonet.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 91 12:03:43 EST
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS - Kitchener, Ontario

wayne wallace (lord_zar@ucrmath.ucr.edu ) wrote:

 >Hiya. A long long long time ago, when the C-64 had NO 
 >software, just about,
 >a PET emulator was released, so you could use all the cool 
 >PET games.
 >(like breakout. That is very nice!!)

 >So: does anyone have it ? And would it be possible for you 
 >to upload, uuencode,
 >etc. or would I need to send a disk ?

   I'm sure that I have a copy, but no computer & drive to read it with 
anymore!

   Anyway, all that the PET emulator did was to move the screen, normally at 
$0400, to $8000 and move the default start of basic, normally at $0800, to 
$0400.  That way, programs which POKEd directly to the PET screen would work 
on the C64.  It didn't offer any additional compatibility for programs that 
used ROM calls, i.e. if the ROM calls were incompatible before, the PET 
emulator didn't improve anything.

   Still, as you say, it permitted many PET programs (virtually all BASIC 
programs) to run on the C64.
 




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