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Matteo De Luigi wrote:

> dgriffi@cs.csuabk.edu wrote:

[...]

> > As sick as that sounds, I think it's a pretty good idea... in a sick sort
> > of way.  Think about it.  It's probably the world's most portable BASIC
> > interpreter.
> Wasn't that the ZX Spectrum's Sinclair BASIC ?

Heh.  In that the Sinclair was a nice, small machine that could just barely fit
in a large pocket, sure!


> There are emulators for a plethora of platforms.

I believe that the Z-Machine has been emulated on more platforms, though I don't
have any numbers in front of me.  However, as we were reminded rather recently,
the Z-Machine is on the GameBoy...


> Ok, they won't work
> if you are on a text-only terminal, but the Z-machine won't run on a
> 16k Speccy, so...

Hmmm...I wonder...


> Now, just to keep this thread at least slightly on topic:
>
> Someone could write IF for the ZX Spectrum. You would get graphics,
> sound, and code that will run almost everywhere.

This is true.  This is eerily true.


> --
> Matteo "I want to see a .z80 game file in the Annual Comp" De Luigi

