The Elwro 800 Junior emulator
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1. The Elwro 800 Junior emulator
Jarek Adamski · Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:12:
Hello and late Happy New Year!
This information may be interesting to some of you.
We've found the legendary emulator of Elwro 800
Junior written by Vulcan. (Elwro 800 Junior was
Polish educational computer compatibile to ZX
Spectrum.)
The emulator is mentioned in comp.sys.sinclair FAQ,
but without its name (VJUNIOR).
8. Elwro 800-3 Jr v1.0 [IBM PC]
Authors: Piotr Schmidt & Piotr Wolter
a) Is not 100% compatible with ZX Spectrum (the real Elwro
had problems with JetPac while other games were ok).
b) Capable of running CP/M.
c) Runs either in CGA, Hercules, or EGA mode.
d) Emulates 2 disk drives accessed via * commands
(e.g. SAVE * "file") with capacity of about 700kB.
These are physically files.
e) Changeable interrupt frequency (45, 50, 65, 70 Hz).
f) All system messages are in Polish.
g) No tape support.
h) Utility to read the real Elwro Junior disks on PC
i) Commercial only.
I hope spreading it doesn't violate author's rights, as
Elwro 800 Junior is no more a commercial product, and
the emulator was released in 1991, before the copyrigt
law were reformed in Poland (1994).
http://8bit.yarek.pl/emulator/zx.junior/
(Downloading files requires common password, available
for everyone registered in http://8bit.yarek.pl service.)
I've also collected some documentation of the Junior:
http://8bit.yarek.pl/computer/zx.junior/
--
Jarek Adamski