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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Emulators (was Re: 1.4 FFS on Floppies?? )
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Date: 28 Nov 89 01:16:37 GMT
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In article <21@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> (Ian Farquhar 7420) writes:
>However, it is not TECHNICALLY impossible to produce an Amiga emulator,
>the difficulty is one of motive, and of legal considerations.

It is technically impossible to emulate the Amiga on an Atari ST. The Amiga
has a larger color map, stereo digital sound (4 channels), and a very powerful
Copper that runs in parallel to the CPU. None of these exist on the current
ST (although some of them are on the ST-E). Yes, I've seen Spectrum512 and
it's variants but 512 != 4096 no matter how much you squint. Sorry, end of
discussion. The Amiga can't emulate a VGA card either, so what? 
--Chuck McManis
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