Date   : Mon, 03 Mar 1997 15:35:58 +0000 (GMT)
From   : Tom Seddon <T.W.Seddon@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Micro

On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Steve Clynes wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. As I mentioned in my original posting it is years
> since I started my emulator. I don't even know what state the code I
> have is in, or even if I can read the disks anymore!!! However, reading
> the emulators news group has prompted my mind back into gear and I can't
> think of anything else at the moment but BBC! I have just started to
> re-write the code but will keep you informed as I progress (hopefully
> progress!) If you have any ideas and or problems you encountered I would
> be interested in keeping in contact. Maybee even do a little work
> together on this? Just an idea! 

That sounds fine... if you want any help just ask. What language is yours 
written in? I started writing one in 32-bit assembler, using DOS32 as a 
DOS extender, but gave up on this after I lost it due to a hard drive 
crash. I restarted using djgpp (32-bit DOS version of gcc) and it works 
very well (95%-110% speed on my 486-100, 4x BBC speed on a CxP166+ :-)

A better source of BBC knowledge is the BBC Micro Emulators Mailing List. 
For more details about this, and anything else BBC-related, check out The 
BBC Lives!:

http://www.nvg.unit.no/bbc/

The mailing list is rather dead at the moment but people are still 
subscribed to it, so if you ask a question you will get an answer, if 
anybody knows it.

> PS Where can I down load your "BBC"?

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~n5013784/bbc-emu.htm

It's a ZIP file, about 300K. It's about 9 months since the page was 
updated properly, and about a year since I released the intial version of 
the emulator.

--Tom
"Yo momma so fat she on both sides of the family"