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"People write emulators just because they can. Do you think there is any "demand" for an emulator for the Amstrad CPC?"

Hey, don't knock the Amstrad CPC :-)

I owned one as a kid (before selling it to get some money towards a Commodore Amiga), and enjoyed many years of 2.99GBP ports of Spectrum games...

Years later I was delighted when I found a working emulator for the PC and a huge archive of CPC games. And if I hadn't found one, I'm sure I would have demanded/written one eventually!

> Not much, but I do remember ftpsearch.ntnu.no [ftpsearch.ntnu.no].

That's not old. This is old:

ftpsearch.unit.no

It's available over at If people could kindly mirror this file, to avoid the slashdot effect. It's in .Z80 format, which is compatible with most Spectrum Emulators

Yes, YES! I remember that and thinking 'you cunning sly little fox you!'

And on a related story...

I was out last wednesday with two other members of the 'curry club' at the customer site where I am at the mo. We got onto the subject of Spectrums and one of them said 'I wrote some software for the speccy once'. I enquired further, having never been in the precense of such greatness. Finance Manager was the product, Elephant Software was his company. He explained that he was a mainframe coder at the time and made this finance package in his spare time at home. Thing was, becuase he was a mainframe person where screens are two-tone, and where you have to tab to fields and press 'enter'.. he coded the program in the same way. Apparently he sold 1500 copies, which just paid for the advert in Sinclair User. I suggested to him that it would probably be somewhere on the internet and he was doubtful.. "it didn't sell many copies..".

So over the weekend I had a look around and stumbled across finance.zip, and sure enough, it's his program.
It's quite funny to look at actually..

Memories indeed..

Yes, YES! I remember that and thinking 'you cunning sly little fox you!'

And on a related story...

I was out last wednesday with two other members of the 'curry club' at the customer site where I am at the mo. We got onto the subject of Spectrums and one of them said 'I wrote some software for the speccy once'. I enquired further, having never been in the precense of such greatness. Finance Manager was the product, Elephant Software was his company. He explained that he was a mainframe coder at the time and made this finance package in his spare time at home. Thing was, becuase he was a mainframe person where screens are two-tone, and where you have to tab to fields and press 'enter'.. he coded the program in the same way. Apparently he sold 1500 copies, which just paid for the advert in Sinclair User. I suggested to him that it would probably be somewhere on the internet and he was doubtful.. "it didn't sell many copies..".

So over the weekend I had a look around and stumbled across finance.zip, and sure enough, it's his program.
It's quite funny to look at actually..

Memories indeed..

>Is there an archive of ZX81 software anywhere

There is an archive of many sinclair computer programs at ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/sinclair, for the ZX81, 48K, Spectrum+, and others.

These are typically in the format of RAM images, rather than as audio files. I know that there are various tools around suitable for the 48K Spectrum for turning these into audio (I'm also writing one of my own), though I don't know if there is anything out there for the ZX81.

Steve.

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