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From: donb@bushido.uucp (Donald Burnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C64 Emulator??
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.014007.3554@bushido.uucp>
Date: 6 Sep 90 01:40:07 GMT
References: <1990Aug1.155101.24997@max.physics.sunysb.edu> <90215.223107JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>
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In article <90215.223107JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes:
>In article <1990Aug1.155101.24997@max.physics.sunysb.edu>,
>greendog@max.physics.sunysb.edu (Michael D Fischer) says:
>>
>>Does anyone know of a GOOD Commodore 64 emulator?  The only emulator
>>I know of is Go-64 which I've heard is pretty bad.
>
>The best one to date, to my understanding, is ReadySoft's
>64 Emulator II.  It is best used for file conversion, as it will
>let you connect 64 and 128 disk drives to the Amiga, and it will
>also read 1581 disks in the Amiga.
>
>On a bright future note, I have heard there is a company designing
>a 64 bridgeboard of sorts.  They're "Dr Evil Labs" of the SIDSymphony
>cartridge fame.  I e-mailed them yesterday and am awaiting reply.
>
>Before you cry "vaporware" I'd like to add the results of my personal
>research into a 64 bridgecard.  Two different hardware engineers I
>spoke to said the physical card to plug in would be VERY easy to
>design (as compared to the 2088 or 2286 bridgeboards.)  The only hard
>part about mass-producing the boards would be getting bulk quantities
>of the 64 proprietary chips.  The hard part of the whole package
>would be the software interface to the Amiga.  That could be solved
>by getting a half-dozen of you screen hackers out there together
>for a couple of weeks, right?  ;-)
>
>                                                            Kurt
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Note: I see limited usefulness for something like this at best and a 64
isn't that expensive today, that you couldn't afford to still have both.
However Jamemco (in back of Byte and Computer Shopper) sells publicly many
of the 64 chips, however you would have to somehow license the rom from
Commodore..


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