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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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