Re: xtrs z80
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 03:47:26PM -0300, Beco wrote:
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> On 15 October 2013 04:38, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
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> Beco <rcb <at> beco.cc> writes:
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> > Is xtrs broken under wheezy?
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> What is it anyway? A Tandy Trash 80 emulator?
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> Stan
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> Hi Stan,
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> Yep, its an emulator for TRS-80 ! Please, don't call it by its ugly nickname
> (Trash!) :)
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> I'm having lots of fun with this emulator. Today I could install a harddrive,
> mind you!
> It has (I believe, I need to compute it yet) 13 MB!!
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> I'll put all software from various disketts I've collected in this single
> file.
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> Now I just need to make it boot from the HD and I don't need even the OS on
> drive :0 anymore.
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> As soon as I put a c compiler on it, I'll start using only my TRS-80 to work.
> Bye debian! It was nice to be with you! But things evolves, you know!
Interesting use of the word "evolves" :-)
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> Ahaha! I wonder what my students would do when I ask for the next assignment:
> -Do a program that reads 2 numbers and calculates the average, in C. - Just it,
> teacher? - Yep. But on a TRS80. LOL.
Try 3D graphics in COBOL. Or a pac-man game in Lotus-1-2-3
macros. Lots of fun.
Of course, writing software is only half the fun. There's equally much
fun in testing - give them the Weinberg-Myers Triangle problem! I
still remember that as quite an education. They won't understand
software until they know how to break it :-)
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Karl E. Jorgensen
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