On 21/03/2016 8:56 AM, Your Name wrote:
> In article , Clocky
>  wrote:
>> On 21/03/2016 12:41 AM, aowen10@mail.bbk.ac.uk wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Probably, though at one time I used the old software IBM PC emulator on
>> my Amiga to run PASCAL when I was studying as I didn't have a PC at that
>> time and it got me out of trouble.
>>
>> It was slow, but worked well enough to get the job done.
>
> I helped beta-test one of the first (if not the first) Mac emulators on
> the Amiga. It was handy for doing some of the university Mac work at
> home too.  :-)
>
> I used to use the VirtualPC Windoze emultor on my Mac to access a
> Windoze-only clip art CD, but later found a Mac application to access
> it, so haven't had any use for that in quite a while.
>
> The only other emulators I have are for various computers and handhelds
> to play old games on my Mac.
>

Some of the 8 bit emulators I use have useful debugging features that
make dealing with the real hardware a bit easier.

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