Hey,

This a link for all you pocket pc fans. This site (http://www.zophar.net/ppc/ppc.phtml) has a list of emulators that run on the pocket pc. If you go to the parent site (http://www.zophar.net)there are emulators that run on pretty much any system out there. The coolest I think are the emulators that run on the xbox. Take a gander and enjoy.

Thanks zire. There is an interesting article (http://www.wired.com/news/gizmos/0,1452,66205,00.html?tw=rss.TOP) in Wired.com today which talkes about emulators.

Gillon said focusing on the practicality of the emulators misses the real point, which is showing off the technology and the programmer's abilities.

"It's amazing, because a decade ago these same games needed a pretty strong PC to run," Gillon said. "I really like hacking stuff to work on my phone and it never ceases to impress people."

I'm a huge fan of emulators. What I enjoy most are the computer emulators (although I spend a fair amount of time with arcade and console ones too.) My first computer was a Commodore 64 and I loved it to death. I love that I can fire up my 64 anytime I want on pretty much any computer I want (including my iPaq (http://www.zophar.net/ppc/c64.html).) What's funny is that I don't just use them for gaming but actually enjoy trying to recreate what computing was like back then. Being a kid I mostly played it for games and learning a little basic programming. I never used it to do the myriad things I do with my computer now and quite arrogantly used to assume you coulnd't do all of the things I do now. Well ok you can't depending on the technology :-). But I was surprised to learn how long things like online banking and distance learning have been around.

How much fun it would have been to be an adult back in the late 70s/early 80s as the technology was allowing average folks to have computers in their homes. Yea I know some of you were there but I wasn't. Well I was but I was a wee lad more interested in the Smurfs than modems and hard drives ;-).

How much fun it would have been to be an adult back in the late 70s/early 80s as the technology was allowing average folks to have computers in their homes. Yea I know some of you were there but I wasn't. Well I was but I was a wee lad more interested in the Smurfs than modems and hard drives ;-).Ha! That's so funny! I am one of those that lived through all that.

But I think just the opposite... I think about how much fun it would have been to have grown up with all this computing power and technology all around.

Then I could have done so much more instead of entering programming contests where you had to create a box full of punch cards to be submitted in a batch job, or writing machine code games using character-based graphics and self-modifying code, or using 10 character per second teletype machines with punch tape storage!

Guess it goes to show, the grass always looks greener...!

using 10 character per second teletype machines with punch tape storage!

"Hey you kids! Get off of my lawn!" -- just kidding! :-)

Guess it goes to show, the grass always looks greener...!

That's true. I will admit though as much as I love reading through my old Byte and Computes Gazette magazines I'd never really give up my modern computer. Heck I just got broadband last week! I don't want to go back to 53k connections much less 300 baud ;-)

Now back to my surfing the world wide web while listening to my streaming classical music stations. Ahhh progress!