A coworker mentioned the possible existence of an SNES (Super
Nintendo) emulator for the PC.  However unlikely this sounds (to me at least)
I thought I’d give this group a try and ask about it.  Does anyone have any
info an this?  Thanks in advance.

   No, this isn’t a joke.  I have an colecovision ADAM computer (the
second computer I ever owned), that I would like to get some files off
of.  I don’t have a modem for it (and seriously doubt I could get one).  
If anyone knows of any such beast that would allow me to get these files,
please let me know.  Thanks

-Harry
      .—.        .———–       .__                 __    
     /     \  __  /    ——  _____  |  | _____    _____|  | _______  
    / /     \(  )/    —–    \__  \ |  | \__  \  /  ___/  |/ /\__  \  
   //////   ‘ \/ `   —        / __ \|  |__/ __ \_\___ \|    <  / __ \_
  //// / // :    : —         (____  /____(____  /____  >__|_ \(____  /
 // /   /  /`    ’–                \/          \/     \/     \/     \/
//          //..\\     No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings
       ====UU====UU====                   Harry Marlin
           ’//||\\`                      Ala…@gate.net
             ”“

In short…
Looking for an idea of which one would work better.

Ok, so there’s much more info than needed than that….
We currently run SoftPC 3.0, and it works, at least barely well enough to
do what we need.  But bottom line, it would help us a lot, if we could get it
to work better.
The following programs _must_ run in the configurations listed below:
        CUSP, TurboC++, HEC, Lahey Fortran, Lindo, Lotus, MetalSelector,
        Microsoft C/Pascal/MASM, Program CC, Pspice, SAP90, Stanjan,
        Turbo Matrix, Well_Field.
I’m not sure how many are "local" and how many are payware in the above.

The main problem right now is two-fold…one of course, is the ever-essential
cost.  I have no idea about the costs of either software.  The license we would
need to get minimum is about a 20-machine license (we have about 45 machines
so it would have to be ‘floating’, I believe is the term.)  We’re a University
so if there are any educational-pricings, etc that’d be nice.  Ideally, we’d
have a 40-machine license or so (25 Sun’s and about 20 HP’s right now.)

The other is our configuration.  Right now, SPC runs on Sun IPC’s, under SunOS
4.1.1, and OpenWindows 3.0.  There are a few Sun-10′s, under SunOS 4.1.3_U1.
The IPC’s only have about 12Mb of phyiscal RAM, the 10′s have 64Mb’s.  But
recently, we got our hands on about 12 HP-9000/712/80, w/32Mb running
HPUX9.01.  We’ve never run SPC/SW/WABI on these machines…and it would be nice
if our license could cover that (meaning we’d need two binaries, of course).
All machines run "standalone" with NIS, and NFS-mounts…no clusters or
whatever sort of thing.  But if we can only get it for one or the other
(Sun or teh HP) it won’t matter much to us – whichever works "better" for the
above software is fine.

I was a bit unsure on which newsgroups, so I’ve tried the above.  Therefore,
I’ve crossposted, and thus mail would probably be a better way for rplies,
although posts are ok (I read both regularly.)  If by mail, I’ll summarize.
I’ve tried FAQ’s for the above groups at rtfm.mit.edu, and didn’t find anything
appropriate in them…so if the FAQ mainainer(s)w ould like me to organize
an answer, please drop me a note.

Thanks all…PH
—
  I do not speak for for UC Davis, Academic Computing Services, or anyone else.
  Paul Hirose                                         pthir…@engr.ucdavis.edu

Jeff Hunt (ba…@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) wrote:

: Is there a way that I can play a mac game (ie bolo) on my ibm..perhaps an
: emulator…?

  The closest thing to a mac emulator on an ibm is Executor for dos and
in it’s current version (1.2) it can not run bolo (I tried).  Perhaps
2.0, whenever it comes out, will support bolo.  We’ll have to wait to
find out. —

-Harry
      .—.        .———–       .__                 __    
     /     \  __  /    ——  _____  |  | _____    _____|  | _______  
    / /     \(  )/    —–    \__  \ |  | \__  \  /  ___/  |/ /\__  \  
   //////   ‘ \/ `   —        / __ \|  |__/ __ \_\___ \|    <  / __ \_
  //// / // :    : —         (____  /____(____  /____  >__|_ \(____  /
 // /   /  /`    ’–                \/          \/     \/     \/     \/
//          //..\\     No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings
       ====UU====UU====                   Harry Marlin
           ’//||\\`                      Ala…@gate.net
             ”“

HELP!!
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I am a former amiga user, which as many else, changed to Pc. I’ve sold my
amiga years ago, but I miss the good old machine. Can anyone tell me
where it is possible to find the emulator on Internet? I’ve tried Archie in
Korea,Japan,Taiwan,USA,Italy and .. everywhere! Can anyone
help me??

e-mail : INGE…@HIOF.NO
or put in some reply in the news.. please…

In article <CvE17x….@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> c9101…@peach.newcastle.edu.au (Raymond Lai) writes:

   What’s the most common way of emulating the CPU (any arbitrary
   microprocessor) registers on another microprocessor? I’ve looked
   at some emulator code, and there seems to be two ways of doing it.
   One is to use the registers of the emulating microprocessor. The
   other option seems to be using a variable (in main memory) to
   emulate the registers.

Using registers for registers is the faster but you may not be able
to map all registers of the emulated machine to those of the emulating
machine. In this case, map the most frequently use registers only.
For example, the accumulator is used more frequently than the stack
pointer so the accumulator has a higher priority. Note that you need
some scatch-pad registers and registers to hold frequently used
quantities of your emulator. This is largely an engineering decision.
Always optimize the common cases at the expense of rare ones.

   I am thinking of using option Two since I won’t have to worry
   about the number of emulated registers, but I’m worried about
   speed. Would using option Two have an adverse effect on the
   speed of the emulation? I am using 8086/8088 assembler language
   emulating the Z80.

Go for option one unless you don’t have to worried about speed. Alternatively,
use a high level language like C to code your emulator. The compiler will
take care of register allocation and it is easier for you to debug. Unless
you are a very exprience programmer and well versed in assembly languages, I
would not recommend you writing big programs in assembly languages
exclusively. A general rule of thumb is that only use assembly language
to code for most frequently run parts when you need very good performance.

8086/8088 is a dead chip. While it is true that there are still XT users,
it is not an overestimation to assume many people have 386′s or better
machines. I would suggest 286 as the lowest denominator for you. I am not
familiar with the ix86 family but you may find some new instructions
handy.

   P.S. Anyone know of any other emulators with source code? Please
        let me know, thanks.

Have you got Randy Spurlock’s Apple ][ emulator? It is written in 8086
assembly.

-Doug

Are there any SoftWindows GURUs out there??  I’m running into some
setup/configuration issues.  I’ve noticed an incredible performance difference
when running windows from the .hdf file as opposed to a Unix (FSA) directory.
Has anyone else noticed this?  I want to run SoftWindows and applications in
a server/client environment and need to figure the best configuration as
far a where executables and settings files should be kept. Maybe we could get
a discussion going here.

Jimmy Buddenberg        jimmy.buddenb…@ab.com

Hello !

I run SoftWindows on PPC 8100/80, 32Mb RAM (16 Mb for
SoftWindows), Apple OS 7.5b2.
I use Borland C++ and I would like to debug the code,  but
any time I try to start up the debugger (regardless of doing
it standalone or from the Borland C++ IDE) nothing happens
only only just the cursor vanishes and the SoftWindows be-
comes dead. (TheApple OS works propely, with Ctrl-Alt-Esc
I am able to kill SoftWindows).

Any suggestion welcomed,

Tamas

Hi,

I am trying to send an escape character to the host using Procomm.
But Procomm interprets the key when I press escape on the
keyboard and does not transmit the character.  I am using
VT-100 emulation.  Is ‘escape’ allowed on a VT100 terminal
and if it how do I work around the problem?

Thanks in advance.
Balu

[ Article crossposted from comp.sys.tandy ]
[ Author was Joe Peterson ]
[ Posted on 16 Aug 1994 20:15:54 GMT ]

        I just got xtrs-1.0 working on my unix box.  It’s pretty
cool, but only emulates level II basic (not disks, DOS, etc.).
Does anyone know how I might get NEWDOS80 or TRSDOS emulated so I can
pull in programs from a file, etc.?  That would be pretty cool…

        Ultimately I’d like to be able to read my old cassettes
and disks and get them on the emulator so I can have what comprised
my old system working anywhere!  Some of my old disks are 77 track
(wonder if there is sw/hw that can read those puppies!

                                        Joe