Date   : Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:17:23 +0000
From   : public@... (Daniel Beardsmore)
Subject: Quest Paint under emulation?

Adam's mention of ROMs just reminded me -- has anyone ever managed to emulate
Watford Electronics Quest Paint?

There are copies of the ROM floating around, but I think it's a 32 kB ROM,
and it had a little piggyback (well, piggyunder) IC that allowed 32 kB of
data to be read out of a 16 kB page. Something like that.

Great program. The manual reported that it had a bug (flood fill would sometimes 
get stuck) and that was indeed the only bug I ever found in it! Cannot imagine
that sort of reliability now. Programs that are orders of magnitude simpler
are still more bug than working code.