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|    Bob Piltz to Emil Dotchevski    |
|    Re: Apple ][ emulator from 30 years ago    |
|    30 Sep 21 15:40:55    |
      From: bpiltz@gmail.com              On Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 7:44:13 PM UTC-7, Emil Dotchevski wrote:              > Thank you! Just one correction -- authors, plural. :)              Yes I should have said "one of the authors" when I replied. By, the way, I       trust that both of you are still well, after the 30 years, and hopefully no       longer "poor programmers." I looked at the source code and find it a treasure       trove. Thanks again. I        wonder how many are still using (real bare-metal) DOS in 2021 and emulators       like Appler on a daily basis. I'm probably the only one left in the world, but       I feel so gratified when I can spend 5 seconds booting DOS, run a wonderfully       robust program like        Appler which consumes some few *kilobytes* of code, and does its job       exceptionally well. Verses the alternative of running an emulator in a faulty,       multiple-abstraction layered "walled garden" of dozens of *gigabytes* of       runaway, ridiculously slow code,        on a "modern" system! It boggles my mind, so I don't ever do it, preferring my       short and sweet version of DOS instead.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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