Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sdrc!evtracy
From: evtracy@sdrc.UUCP (Tracy Schuhwerk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Transformer New Version?
Message-ID: <1288@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 90 15:58:06 GMT
References: <21615@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: SDRC, Cincinnati
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From article <21615@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, by v144nsu6@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Rett D Walters):
> Hello Fellow Amiga Users:
> 
> I have recently heard of a new version of the Amiga Transformer (the public
> domain software IBM emulator) that will run very complex programs such as
> WordPerct 5.0 and Lotus 123 release 2 with no problems.  I currently have 
> Transformer version 1.2 but it is slow and unreliable (I cant get it to run
> anything but QDOS and GWBASIC and it is very slow) the new version will 
> apparently run things pretty fast for an emulator.  Well anyway, does anybody
> know of this program and whether it is PD or Commercial? I cant afford a 
> bridgeboard, but I will be able to afford this.  

Sorry for the response here, my mailer doesn't like the address above...

   I was one of the probably 2 people in the world to actually buy the
   Transformer when it was sold by Commodore with the 5.25" drive for
   the Amiga.  I think the most use it has had was when I was in school
   to transfer 5.25" disks to IBM 3.5" disks for people who couldn't get
   access to an IBM with both types of drives on it.  I have used it to 
   run Turbo C and Turbo Pascal 5.0... works okay (pretty SLOW!)  I've 
   got Transformer 1.2 and that is the last I heard of it.  Unless 
   something has come up lately, it is commercial software, not PD.

   [ Did anyone else buy this package?  I go a GREAT deal, but I don't
     think it was that great! ;-)  Now I use the 5.25" drive as a 440K
     scratch drive for my Amy when I need the little extra space ]

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