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From: BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Apple IIe Emulation (was RE: New Macs)
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Date: 17 Oct 90 06:12:06 GMT
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   It looks like most of my arguements about the New MACs have been beaten
into the ground, which is actually what I hoped would happened.  I would
have been worried if nobody had been able to disprove my arguements.

   Here's a little food for thought.  From the Apple stuff I saw, the
hardware IIe emulation for the LC takes over the machine, and does not
allow multitasking the way an Amiga BridgeCard does.  This is one fault
I'd like to see exploited.  How's about somebody getting that old 
PD Apple II emulator working, and enhancing it for the IIe?  The ROMs
would be a problem, but that might be taken care of the way that 
the the developer of the A64 emulator took care of them: supply a 
program to put the ROMs on disk from a IIe.

   Get the Apple IIe emulator working, make sure it multitasks well,
and you could have a product to allow Amigas to replace the LC.  

   Some time ago, I exchanged messages through e-mail with someone 
who knows quite a bit about the status of the old Apple II market.
He said that most Apple II owners feel abandoned by Apple, because 
Apple has been pursuing the high-end markets for so long and totally
ignoring them.  He also said that most of these old Apple II owners
would much rather buy an Amiga than an IBM or MAC, for various 
reasons.  

   Apparently, the MAC LC, with its IIe emulation hardware available,
is an attempt to patch things up with the old Apple II owners, and
get them to buy MACs.  Apple is very vulnerable here, because even
with a MAC that is IIe-compatible, many of these owners probably 
still feel put off by Apple for the many years that they've been 
ignored.  If a software Apple IIe emulator were available for the
Amiga, it would make it that much easier to get some of these people
to buy Amigas instead of the MAC LC.    


                               -MB-