Vintage Computers w New Tech. was Re: Hardware Hobbyists vs. Emulator Jockeys

[M H Stein]

Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:08:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christian Liendo <christian_liendo at yahoo.com>

>I am a fan when it doesn't ruin the end user experience.

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>The technology has to be built in a way so that you don't have to harm the old computer so that if you want to run it the old way, >you can. I mean sometimes you want the experience of listening to the grinding of a 1541 drive. 
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One of the not-much-larger-than-a-postage-stamp SD card disk drive 
emulators for the C64 does exactly that; it makes the same comfortingly 
familiar nasty sounds that a 'real' 15xx CBM drive would make.