Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!inria!mirsa!sardaigne.inria.fr!buffa From: buffa@sardaigne.inria.fr (Michel Buffa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Atari ST Emulator ? Message-ID: <8552@mirsa.inria.fr> Date: 31 Jul 90 08:15:03 GMT References: <4985@uafhp.uark.edu> <5533@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Sender: news@mirsa.inria.fr Reply-To: buffa@mirsa.inria.fr Distribution: comp Organization: Inria Sofia Antipolis Lines: 57 In article <5533@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, terry@helios.ucsc.edu (Terry Ricketts) writes: > >In article <4985@uafhp.uark.edu> bbs00203@uafcseg.uucp (Mario Amigo) writes: > > > > Not long ago there were words about ST emulator for Amiga from Germany. > > There are PD versions which work, I hear. Any more info on that, anyone? > > The emulator you are refering to is called Medusa. It is supposed to be a > hardware-software combination. For the last month there has been a software > package by that name making the rounds of the bbs's. It appears to be PD but > since there was no documentation I can't say for sure. The software seems to > run. At least a TOS screen comes up on Ami. But since I have no ST disks to > check it with I have not gone any further. If anyone knows for sure that it is > PD & if others have an interest in it I could send it on to Xanth. What is the emulator you are speaking about ? How do you run it ? Medusa is definately not public domain, it's sold in Germany. Well, I tried two different emulators. I tried to run softwares, and they WORKED ! The emulators I tested WERE NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN ! They were compiled with other softs on a disk with 50 different utilities. The name of the disk was CD147 I think. The CD's serie are disks compiled by pirates with a lot of compacted utilities. Don't blame me. I'm not a pirate. Somebody just gave me this disk and said: hey, do you want to try the st emulators ? May I had that these compiled disks are very useful too (They contain pirated software, and that's not good, but they also contain the best of the public domain utilities, compiled in a very efficient way) So, the first one I tried was the CHAMELEON emulator. It was a beta version, so it was impossible to write anything on the atari disks. It reads directly atari disks and run in three different resolutions (i had to press F1, F2 or F3 at launching time to choose the res.). I tried degas elite and it ran. It crashed several times too, and didn't work with 1 meg chip Ram (But ran with Quickship) I never heard about this emulator before... The second one was a cracked version (only software) of the medusa emulator V2.1a I don't know if it is an alpha or beta version, but it works very well. It reads directly atari disks, and runs only in the black and white hi-res mode. I ran without problems Signum 2.0, platine st, script, and some other softs. The only problem is that with only One Meg, A lot of programs pop the requester "Not enough memory to run this application". This emulator seemed very bug-free and there was no speed difference with a real atari st. ------------------------------------------ Michel Buffa: Projet Robotvis, INRIA, France Internet: buffa@sardaigne.inria.fr Surface Mail: Michel BUFFA, INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, 2004, route des Lucioles, 06565 Valbonne Cedex -- FRANCE Voice phone: (33) 93.65.78.39, Fax: (33) 93 65 77 65 ------------------------------------------