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From: dan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Dan Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple IIe card?
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.164609.9873@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
Date: 29 Oct 90 16:46:09 GMT
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There is (or was) a commercial product for the Mac called "II in a Mac" which
did exactly that; emulate an Apple //e completely in software.

I remember using it briefly on someone's Mac SE. I was impressed with the level
of compatibility as far as ordinary programs went; copy-protected software and
things that accessed modems, etc. were a different story. It was a cute but
impractical interface: you ran it under single-finder, and got a picture of an 
Apple II computer on your screen. The Apple's "monitor" is where you actually
viewed the software as it was running.

I don't know if this program is still available, or if it has been updated to
be more compatible. The speed at which it ran was acceptable, but slow compared
to my "speedy" 3.6mhz Apple II Plus. I am sure that if it was run on a 16mhz 
030 machine, there would be no complaints about speed at all.

If the Macintosh can do a credible emulation of the IBM AT computer entirely in
software, then doing a good job of emulating an Apple II should be child's play
by comparison.



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