On 21/03/2016 8:56 AM, Your Name wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   Some of the 8 bit emulators I use have useful debugging features that   
   make dealing with the real hardware a bit easier.   
      
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