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From: jnmoyne@lbl.gov (Jean-Noel MOYNE)
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Subject: Re: Ah, gimme a *real* project!        (Re: New 64 emulator?)
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Date: 8 Oct 90 21:33:25 GMT
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In article <6717@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter 
da Silva) writes:
> Hey, how about an Atari-800 emulator? Now that would be worthwhile... and
> quite a bit harder (remember, the 800 is the predecessor of the Amiga and
> has custom coprocessors of its own).


   Yep, this would be a funny one to do ... However when you see the 
number of different C64 emulators existing now, you can believe it is 
possible to do an Atari 800 emulator (I didn't say a good one), at least 
the motor is  the same (6502 emulation), and even if the Atari 800 was 
able to do more than the 64 on the graphics-animation side, the way the 
graphics works on the 800 is much closer to the way they work on the Amiga 
(like the color registers)

   That would be a great idea, especially if the emulator can run 
'Dropzone' as well as an Atari !!! Datastorm is much better than Dropzone 
(and much harder, I can tell you), but I don't have my 64 anymore an I'm 
still missing Dropzone sometimes.

   Because if somebedy does a Atari 800 emulator, I hope the games will 
work on it ! That's the only reason you need it for (like the Commodore 64 
emulator, nobody needs to emulate crapy old BASIC programs running in text 
mode without sounds) (-:

    Remember the reactions of the people when the first Amiga 500 came out 
with a commodore key on the left !! (((-:

    And don't tell me all the C64 owner went to the Amiga, and all the 
A800 owner went to the ST !

      JNM


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