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From: terry@helios.ucsc.edu (Terry Ricketts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New 64 emulator?
Keywords: GEnie, multitask, shareware
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Date: 26 Sep 90 14:57:13 GMT
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In article <603@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM> anderson@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Joel Peter Anderson) writes:
>Last night I spotted a new (shareware) product on GEnie: a multitasking
>C64 emulator for the Amiga.  Before I download it from GEnie, does anyone
>know of its availability on an FTP archive?  Also, has anyone used
>this tool?  It was called something like A64Project and (I think) the 
>download number on GEnie was #9155.  Email or post here - but please,
>any badmouthing of the '64, or criticisms about this being a lame use
>of the Amiga  > /dev/null.


	I got this program off of People Link several days ago. It is called
'A64V100.wrp' & was done by one of the authors of Go64. I ran it for a short
time & am impressed with what he has put into a shareware program. It is much
better than eithor of the other 2 competing commercial programs. What
surprised me is that if you send in the $25 registration fee he will send you
a hardware interface that will allow the C64 peripherals to be connected to 
Ami via the parallel port. I'm sure the interface is fairly simple, but I would
be hard pressed to buy the parts to make a simple interface for less than
$10 to $15, so he is almost giving the program away. 
    I printed the docs & read them yesterday. Very impressive. I wish most
commercial programs would go to this trouble. Lots of options with a special
preferences program that can be called from within the C64 emulation. It even
has software to read the C64 roms and install them in the software for those
programs that jump to locations in the rom. Also lots of software to copy C64
programs & move them to Ami. seems it can also use Ami's disks as C64 disks
(but I am not sure on that yet).
   This may not impress many Amiga owners, but I am sure it will be a boon to
many of the former owners of C64s who have upgraded & need help being weened 
from the C64.
   According to the docs he is not finished with the program yet & wants to 
add lots of other features. He should be encouraged, he does very good work.


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