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echo: 64_talk
to: Russell Alphey
from: Tarragon Moon
date: 1994-08-19 03:14:00
subject: Commodore vs IBM

>> What sort of tests would those be? Speed tests? Or VIC emulation
 >> tests? or both? or what?

 > There's only one test so far - it does "for i = 1 to 1000:?i,
 > i*i:next and "times" (a=ti:for i ....:?ti-a) the process.
 > I'd personally like as many different tests as possible.

I could write a small machine language program to test the VIC emulator's
capabilities if you like...?

 > Exactly!  I wanna be able to load"$",8 - not have to use some
 > crappy Windoze menu! :(
And fair enough too. It's not a real emulator if it won't even do the
start-up screen and run the BASIC interpretor.

 >> I know, I'm just picking on an emulator-type believing person :)
 > Hey, at least the emulamer people are pretending to use a *real*
 > machine!             ^^^^^
Is this a typo? 

 >>>> Tarragon, a REAL C64 USER/CODER/MUSICIAN/FANATIC
 >>> Really?
 >> Last time I checked (checks again) Yep, still got 5 of the damn
 >> things sitting around, and still coding...
 > A likely story...
Care to come and check up on me? I might be going I*M! 

 >> An Olivetti IBM PC-XT compatible. Though if I had the same
 >> features available on the 128 I'd probably use that (it would be
 >> possible too).
 > So, go ahead and write some point software for the 128 then!  :)

Well, maybe after the magazine, the music (and a composer/seqeuncer's
in the works), and a few demo-parts. :/

Tarragon

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