aowen10@mail.bbk.ac.uk wrote on 20. March 2016:
>
> On Friday, 18 March 2016 20:28:41 UTC, Andreas Kohlbach  wrote:
>> I was reading a British game magazine from June 1984 (is available as PDF
>> on archive.org - if anyone cares I can try to find the download address)
>> where an article says:
>>
>> | Video Vault International are bringing out the Commodore Emulator for
>> | £12.95. Once loaded into your machine, it emulates the Sinclair
>> | operating system and allows you to run your favourite Sinclair
>> | games. Commodore 64 owners should soon be able to load and run Spectrum
>> | software on their machines [...]
>>
>> I was curious if this works. Especially since a C64 has a 6510 CPU and a
>> Spectrum an Z80.
>>
>> I don't own a real Commodore 64 so emulate it with the VICE emulator. I
>> also found a program in my collection which has "Spectrum Emulator
>> (1985)" in its name. But although the program loads it just doesn't
>> start. RUN just returns the cursor.
>>
>> So I wonder if this is for real. Has anybody ever had a working Spectrum
>> emulator for the Commodore 64? Not important if on the real machine or
>> emulated itself.
>
> Whitby Computers ported Sinclair BASIC to the C64 in 1985. That's
> probably the emulator you have in your collection. There's a thread
> about it on the Lemon64 forum with a contribution from the original
> author. POKEs work, but there's no Z80 emulator so machine code games
> won't run. I doubt a £12.95 emulator would include a Z80, so I wonder
> if the Video Vault solution was just a rebranded version of the Whitby
> Computers program, only with more marketing BS. The C128 could emulate
> a Spectrum quite easily as it has all the required hardware, but it
> would be about a third the speed of the original. So yeah, kind of
> pointless.

Thanks for the info.
--
Andreas

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