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From: labb-2ae@e260-2d.berkeley.edu (Joe C.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 64 Emulator
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Date: 30 Sep 90 20:41:27 GMT
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In article <1990Sep30.073030.17993@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, umturne4@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Daryl Turner) writes:
> Has anyone used this new 64 emulator?  Maybe someone can post a review
> on it.  
> 
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I've been using the "64 Emulator 2" from Readysoft.  I thought I'd ftp this
new one and give it a try.

Two things about this emulator impresses me.  It is twice as fast as
Readysoft's version ( compared on a stock 68000 ), and it multitasks. I
don't know what the author did to achieve this, but it's good.

Besides, that, both emulators will do pretty much the same thing, but I
haven't tried a many C64 programs yet.

The only drawback, ( the reason that I will not be using this program ), is
that it won't emulate a virtual 1541 / 1581 on an amiga drive.

For example, in Readysoft's version, I can declare any amiga device
(including directories in any floppy or hard disk) as a 1541 emulator; so
when I issue the command:

open 15,8,15,"N0:testdisk,xx"
close 15

A file is created in that directory, roughly 170K, which basically represents
the 1541.  So now, if I use ANY 1541 DOS commands:

load "$0",device number; or rename0; scratch0;  (including u1, m-w,), etc.

the emulator will access that file.  The advantage to this Readysoft's
method is that I can have several virtual 1541's in my ram or my hardrive,
and just switch( from within the emulator ) to any one.   I have all of
my old infocom games on virtual 1541 drives.  And when I put them in
ram:, there is no disk access!  (Needless to say, this is A LOT faster than
acessinng the real 1541.

This is the only feature that I find lacking in the Shareware version of the
emulator, but if this is not big deal, and you'll be using the real 1541
for most of the time, then by all means use the shareware version.

-jc

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