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   Bill Vermillion to rickajho@rcn.com   
   Re: Why no Model II emulator?   
   07 Sep 07 10:42:16   
   
   From: bv@wjv.com   
      
   In article <46D5AC02.3260633E@rcn.com>, Rick   wrote:   
   >zwsdotcom@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   >> I've just acquired a large collection of Model II stuff, and I'm going   
   >> through it, cleaning and testing. I'm puzzled though - why is there no   
   >> Model II emulator in the world? Many far more obscure systems have   
   >> emulators.   
      
   >This hasn't come up in ages - looking over posts no one has asked about   
   >a Model II emulator since July 2004. No one was asking "Why?" at the   
   >time, but I believe even further back when this came up the issue was:   
   >not enough interest. The II/12/16 computers were geared for businesses   
   >and business applications - kinda boring stuff - and there just has   
   >never been enough interest to bother creating emulators for the line.   
   >For all the work it would take to produce an emulator there might be 12   
   >people out there that would want to play with it.   
   >   
   >Rick   
      
   The 16's were only boring if you didn't run Xenix.  Then it   
   became the best adventure game ever written. :-)   
      
   Bill   
      
      
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