In article <56ef1fff$0$1534$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>, Clocky   
    wrote:   
   > On 21/03/2016 12:41 AM, aowen10@mail.bbk.ac.uk wrote:   
   > > On Friday, 18 March 2016 20:28:41 UTC, Andreas Kohlbach  wrote:   
   > >> I was reading a British game magazine from June 1984 (is available as PDF   
   > >> on archive.org - if anyone cares I can try to find the download address)   
   > >> where an article says:   
   > >>   
   > >> | Video Vault International are bringing out the Commodore Emulator for   
   > >> | £12.95. Once loaded into your machine, it emulates the Sinclair   
   > >> | operating system and allows you to run your favourite Sinclair   
   > >> | games. Commodore 64 owners should soon be able to load and run Spectrum   
   > >> | software on their machines [...]   
   > >>   
   > >> I was curious if this works. Especially since a C64 has a 6510 CPU and a   
   > >> Spectrum an Z80.   
   > >>   
   > >> I don't own a real Commodore 64 so emulate it with the VICE emulator. I   
   > >> also found a program in my collection which has "Spectrum Emulator   
   > >> (1985)" in its name. But although the program loads it just doesn't   
   > >> start. RUN just returns the cursor.   
   > >>   
   > >> So I wonder if this is for real. Has anybody ever had a working Spectrum   
   > >> emulator for the Commodore 64? Not important if on the real machine or   
   > >> emulated itself.   
   > >   
   > > Whitby Computers ported Sinclair BASIC to the C64 in 1985. That's probably   
   > > the emulator you have in your collection. There's a thread about it on the   
   > > Lemon64 forum with a contribution from the original author. POKEs work, but   
   > > there's no Z80 emulator so machine code games won't run. I doubt a £12.95   
   > > emulator would include a Z80, so I wonder if the Video Vault solution was   
   > > just a rebranded version of the Whitby Computers program, only with more   
   > > marketing BS. The C128 could emulate a Spectrum quite easily as it has all   
   > > the required hardware, but it would be about a third the speed of the   
   > > original. So yeah, kind of pointless.   
   >   
   > Probably, though at one time I used the old software IBM PC emulator on   
   > my Amiga to run PASCAL when I was studying as I didn't have a PC at that   
   > time and it got me out of trouble.   
   >   
   > It was slow, but worked well enough to get the job done.   
      
   I helped beta-test one of the first (if not the first) Mac emulators on   
   the Amiga. It was handy for doing some of the university Mac work at   
   home too.  :-)   
      
   I used to use the VirtualPC Windoze emultor on my Mac to access a   
   Windoze-only clip art CD, but later found a Mac application to access   
   it, so haven't had any use for that in quite a while.   
      
   The only other emulators I have are for various computers and handhelds   
   to play old games on my Mac.   
      
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