Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!ucbvax!agate!darkstar!helios!terry From: terry@helios.ucsc.edu (Terry Ricketts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Atari ST Emulator ? Summary: sounds suspicious Message-ID: <5572@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 31 Jul 90 15:11:41 GMT References: <4985@uafhp.uark.edu> <5533@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <8552@mirsa.inria.fr> Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Reply-To: terry@helios.ucsc.edu (Terry Ricketts) Distribution: comp Organization: UCO/Lick Observatory, Santa Cruz Lines: 44 In article <8552@mirsa.inria.fr> buffa@mirsa.inria.fr writes: > >What is the emulator you are speaking about ? How do you run it ? Medusa is >definately not public domain, it's sold in Germany. > > 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) > >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. > This makes me very suspicious that the program I got is the one you are referring to. The BBS's I saw it on are usually very careful not to allow pirated software to be uploaded. Since there was no documentation with this program it may have sneaked through. The lack of docs made it very difficult to figure out how to run it. There were a set of 3 programs & I had to try various iterations of them in sequence (with each iteration causing my machine to crash) before I stumbled on the right combination. I think at this point I will not pass it on any further, and will notify the BBS's I saw it on that they possible have a pirated copy on their boards. I guess I won't mind erasing it myself too much since I can't find much use for it (not having any Atari disks). I am sorry to see someone get ripped off this way before they even get a chance to get their commercial version out the door! I would appreciate it if no one else would ask me for a copy, since I am getting rid of mine. Terry | Terry Ricketts | Internet: terry@helios.ucsc.edu | Senior Electronics Engineer | loel@helios.ucsc.edu | Lick Observatory Electronics Lab | Phone: 408-459-2110 | University of Calif, Santa Cruz |