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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SoftPC for the Amiga 3000
Message-ID: <376@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 90 06:53:16 GMT
References: <2178@bambam.UUCP>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
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Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <2178@bambam.UUCP> pashdown@shotput.es.com@bambam.UUCP (Pete Ashdown) writes:
>
>>  We just called Insigmnia Solutions, Inc., and asked them if we could
>>expect any time in the future a version of Soft-PC for the NeXT. 
>
>Anyway, being a potential user of SoftPC and also considering the 
>purchase of a bridgeboard for the 3000, I decided to check into
>the possibility of SoftPC being ported to the Amiga 3000.  SoftPC runs at
>4.77 mhz on a 16mhz Mac II, so I would imagine that it would give AT like
>speed on the 3000, as well as being able to multitask a lot better than
>the Mac version (which does run under MultiFinder).

I don't know whether Insignia Solutions has anything to do with it
(seems not), but in the Old Days we already had the "Transformer"
which was a software MS-DOS emulator on the Amiga. 
"Features": SLOW, not very compatible (though the main applications ran),
not any graphics. It was written in a direct-access-to-hardware manner
that would make it difficult to port to the A3000 (at least I think so).
Commodore and it's customers did'nt get much fun out of it and it
was discontinued.

For me, it seems nearly impossible to get "AT speed" out of a software
emulation, also on an A3000. But if you could show me, I would be
pleased. 

>In addition, Apple is busily working on producing an Apple II on a card for
>their Mac's.  The idea is that they are going to upgrade all the schools to
>Mac's without losing the Apple education platform.  WHAT IF Commodore
>contacted Laser about licensing their Apple II compatible ROMS and then
>produced a II emulator as well.

If you had talked about a C64 card for the Amiga, ok. Who wants
an Apple II? (Maybe I'm biased, here in Europe Commodore was dominant
over these fruits all the time, yes, really!) And remember the C128 with
it's CP/M: Those old operating systems are near dead, here it is nearly
impossible to still get some CP/M stuff. The big distributors all have
discontinued this. I assume same would be true for Apple II software,
at least soon.

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