Date   : Fri, 08 Sep 2000 20:29:59 +0100
From   : "Adam Hamilton" <Adam.Hamilton@...>
Subject: Re: First release of BBC Debugger!

> I would love to see one good, open source, cross-platform emulator for the
> BBC micro, which could cope with the differences and allow customisation
of
> the emulated hardware (BBC, Master, B+ 128, electron, 8271/WD1770/1772
disc
> chips, Econet, etc). It would be even better if it had an assembler-level
> debugging mode, and could fake a DFS to allow use of the host platform's
file
> system. I know that none of the emulators out there support all of this.
But
> why write yet another one, rather than add features to an existing one?

Well the reasons I decided to write one myself are:

1) to teach myself about emulation programming, and because I know more
about
   BBC micro hardware than I do about any other system.

2) because of some of the reasons you mention above - I wanted something
that
   works on many different platforms/configurations, and because I thought
that
   a lot of things are missing from many of the existing emulators.


Hope this answers your question.

Cheers,
Adam.