Re: NTLK Is there a Newton Emulator?

From: Harri Hohteri (harri.hohteri@hvk.inet.fi)
Date: Mon Jan 24 2000 - 13:49:42 EST


How about NewtonScript virtual machine?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Mitchell" <skeezix@skeleton.org>
To: <newtontalk@planetnewton.com>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: NTLK Is there a Newton Emulator?

> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Sedney, Rene wrote:
>
> > Question: Is it legal to make an emulator? What do you think of a
Newton
> > Emulator - is it useful
>
> Legality is very old hat for emulation. Usually (but not always)
> its legal. Distributing ROM files is illegal.
>
> A newton emulator would be extremely useful, for development, and
> testing apps, and lots of things. But it would be difficult to write, due
> to the unknown nature of the internals, as well as stuff like the HWR.
> Though if an emulator was written, the HWR coudl be circumvented somewhat
> painfully. The processor could be emulated pretty easily, and going from
> there would be tough (but not impossible).
>
> I've often thought about working on one... but no time and its a
> hard uphill battle.
>
> jeff
>
> --
> "It's murder out there. You can't even travel around in your own micro
> circuits without permission from 'Master Control Program'. I mean,
> sending *ME* down here to play games.... Who does he calculate he is?"
> -- Peter Jurasik as Crom, _Tron_
>
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