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Kevin Phair - RIP

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in Sinclair Miscellaneous
(With thanks to Phil Kendall for passing this information on)

Kevin Phair - author of SpecEm ("The Spectrum Emulator") passed away in December.

http://notices.irishtimes.com/death/phair-kevin-j/44442552



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Comments

  • LunyLuny
    Shame ! RIP old chap.
    Sod it!

    @luny@mstdn.games
    https://www.luny.co.uk
  • JmkJmk
    I will "pkunzip irish.zip" in his memory.

    I remember the first emulators I came across, on a PD disk. Z80 V1.45 (shareware), JPP and SpecEm (named irish.zip). All ran quite nicely on a 25 MHz CPU. Software like this made me realise what was possible on a PC and led me to write my own.

    The emulator is so old it even comes with an ANSI pic. Shows how much times have changed.
    specem.png

  • R-TapeR-Tape
    Very sad to hear of a WOSser dying, especially at 45.

    My speccy games.
  • SwevicusSwevicus
    Goodbye, Kevin. :'( RIP.
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