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From: rjc@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
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Subject: Re: Atari1 emulator
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Date: 15 Oct 90 15:09:26 GMT
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In article <38264@ut-emx.uucp> greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes:
>In article <11358@life.ai.mit.edu> rjc@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>
>That's not it.  My roommate has played with the Atari1 emulator on his
>2000 (1MB chip) with a Microbotics 8-UP (with 2MB installed) several times.

  Explain the reason why Atari1 doesn't work with my plain ole stock
Amiga500 with 512k installed on the motherboard (not A501) doesn't work
with the atari emul. I have the original pre-release Atari emulator
that came out 6 months ago, and in the European intro screen it clearly
stated that it needs $C00 ram. My symtoms are 'Choose resolution, garage
screen, then reset-lockup. (it stays grey screen) and the power light is
flickering a mile a minute. If I hold down both mouse buttons the screen
flashs white-grey, but thats all. I have to reset to get my machine back.

>as for >68000 processors, the answer is simple:  No.
>
>From what I hear (from an Atari hacker) the Atari TOS uses the line-F 
>instructions (which are set aside for coprocessors) for some type of system
>calls...  Therefore anything higher than an 68000 thinks it's passing 
>instructions to a co-processor.  Atari doesn't have a 32-bit bit machine
>(except for the new TT which is incompatible for this reason) because of 
>this.  I'm sure that this is because they never planned on _using_ anything
>higher than a 68000.  Remember that AmigaDOS 1.0 (and I believe 1.1) used
>the MOVE SR, EA instruction, which also chokes 010's and higher.  
>
>Sometimes people don't think ahead.  The Amiga was never really expected to
>get this far by Jay Miner & the guys.  They wanted a really hot game machine,
>not a multimedia/unix workstation.

 Actually, Ive heard a bunch of stories. Rj Mical said something like
they originally wanted a game machine, but then they started making it
into a dream computer. With tons of features. But when Commodore bought
Amiga, they removed alot of stuff and released a buggy OS to get it
out quick.
  
>
>Greg
>
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