Date   : Mon, 30 Jan 1995 13:54:35 +0000 (GMT)
From   : Mark Cooke <ee2015@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn Images

Hi everyone,

> Another point is that Human Computer Interfaces (HCI) are still selling
> 2 commercial products for the Mac. One is a so-called BBC Emulator
> and another is a souped up BBC BASIC programming package. These sell
> for about 35 and 150 quid respectively.

Does anybody buy them though?  Again, although releasing the images PD may
cause this company a slight loss of revenue, if they depend only on this
for income they're flogging a dead duck anyway.

> You can't have someone coming along and writing one for the Mac and
> then giving it away (ROMs and all) for free, can you?

A fairly silly solution :

If Acorn continue to hold on to the roms, maybe we should start a project
to write a new Basic and OS.  Currently my emulator breaks out of the rom
at various points anyway to execute native routines.  Maybe this can be
extended to a new implementation.  I dread to think quite how long this
would take, and how many games it would break though.  Just moving from
the B to the Master caused enough problems - rewriting the OS with 'clean'
code is probably more trouble than its worth.

Mark

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