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From: slfields@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Scott L Fields)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Atari ST 1040 Emulator...
Keywords: atari, emulator
Message-ID: <1990Oct5.185748.6998@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 5 Oct 90 18:57:48 GMT
References: <4798@crash.cts.com> <1990Oct05.050625.28960@hoss.unl.edu> <8839@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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In article <8839@helios.TAMU.EDU> n350bq@tamuts.tamu.edu (Duane Fields) writes:
>I ran it on my 3000 and got nothing but a blank screen, if I have a system
>disk will it work? Or does it sound like it doesn't work with the '030??

You have just discovered the bane of the Atari users life. {NO ABILITY TO USE
A 68020/68030/68040/ETC.} The atari uses the reserved intruction basically
called the 55 intereupt {if I remember}. Well, that instruction is used for
the coproccessor supports in the 68020 and later chips. Try to run ST code on
a 68020 or higher and BOOM!. OS calls make the machine crash. This is the main
reason it has been so long for any Atari to use the 68020/etc period until the
release of the TT. And that is basically incompatible with all previous soft 
ware. Oh well. I guess that is a good reason to NOT buy a 3000. What good is
a machine that can't run Atari ST software. {excuse me while I throw up}