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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: An Emulator for the Amiga
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Date: 30 Nov 89 08:50:32 GMT
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In article <4287@eagle.wesleyan.edu> jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>Anyway, check your facts... I use GKS on a Vax and all it needs is
>Tektronix emulation to display graphics. I suspect a VT240 is simply a VT220
>with Tektronix built in. There are several freely distributable programs with
>Tektronix emulation available for the Amiga.

"Anyway, check your facts" :-) You are "confused", dude. If the only thing
you need is Tektronix graphics, then there are commercial and PD programs
for the Amiga that provide that.  As far as Tektronix graphics is concerned,
the VT240 doesn't provide anything more than these packages (that is, VT240 
does not provide Tek 4105/7 color graphics).  BUT, a VT240 includes all the
stuff in a VT220 (including multinational support), sixel graphics and REGIS
graphics.  Not a simple undertaking or like somebody has suggested: "take
Dave Wecker's VT100 and hack a VT240 into it" :-) Just pick up a VT240 manual
and from the SIZE of it you'll get an idea at what effort would be 
involved in such a project.  The size of the few companies that built such
a beast for the Mac and the PC is larger than any of the Amiga developers, save
for WordPerfect.  I can tell you because I tried, there is NO independent 
software publisher in the Amiga market TODAY that would fund such a project 
WITHOUT some help from Commodore (since venture capitalists are totally 
absent in the Amiga market).  And maybe there is a reason: the market is 
just not there (BTW: there is no problem in getting funding for games, if
you are interested in such things).  

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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