Re: [NTLK] Emulators for Newton

From: Rob Hoehn (rob_at_hoehn.com)
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 01:09:18 EDT


Are these 'joke' emulators on UNNA?

Rob

On 5/8/02 10:06 PM, "Doctor Clu" <drclu_at_swbell.net> wrote:

>
> There was a attempt to make a Apple II emulator for the Newton
> called "Two in Hand" or something like that. But the author seems to
> have dropped off the face of the planet.
>
> Nope, the closest things to emulation on the Newton is various
> terminal emulation. You have pilot doc readers. You have interpreters
> like the ability to play Z games (infocom text adventures).
>
> Then you have the jokes, the simulations, like the DOS prompt which
> gives you the ability to see the Newton and function from a DOS prompt
> like environment. You have the Macintosh system 8 looking program that
> has some functionailty as a Newton desktop, but otherwise is just a
> joke. Same goes for Win95 on the Newton.
>
> As far as I know, there is no true emulator for the Newton. Unless
> of course you count the Waba applications, which is a java like
> environment and there are many programs written under that.
>
> Well, that's it for now.
>
> Doctor Clu
>
>
> Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>>
>> On 08/05/02 16:21, "Jeff Knackstedt" <jeffknackstedt_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I was messing with my friends iPaq yesterday and he had an 8-bit NES
>>> emulator running on it that was totally cool. It got me thinking, is
>>> there any emulator like that for the Newt? A gameboy emulator would be
>>> totally cool and the Newt shouldn't have any trouble running it; the iPaq
>>> ran the NES at 8 times the speed of the original NES and it's only 30 mhz
>>> faster than the Newton. Anyone know of anything like that or would anyone
>>> be able to write one? Visions of hours of Final Fantasy Legend on the
>>> Gameboy are back coming to me...
>>
>> Never heard of anything like that for the Newton.
>>
>> -Laurent.
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