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From: NOWAKO09@SNYBUFVA.BITNET (APPLE //GS - THE POWER TO BE YOUR BEST)
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Subject: Questions,questions,questions.
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Date: 4 Nov 90 20:56:00 GMT
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        I was wondering....the two most popular cpu's today are the
Intel 386 series and the Motorola 68xxx series. Most machines are built
around one of these standards to insure upward compatability. The origional
competitor (way back in the seventies) of the Intel 8080 and Z80's was the
65xxx series. We went from the 6502 to the 65C02 with pitstops for the
6510 and 65802. The one in the GS is the 65816, is Western Design Center going
to come out with an upgrade? The 68xxx series seems to come out like popcorn.
I wonder if economic pressure will prevent a new 65816.
        How about those rumors of a Mac emulation card from Cir-Tech? Anything
to em? I read about it in Nibble AND A+ so I took it seriously (well sorta...)
        Finally, In reading my Orca/M assembler manual it states that the
Orca assembler is powerful enough to develop a cross assembler using macros and
that got me thinking....is there anything technically impossible about developin
   g a cross-interpreter? i.e. You get a program for another computer (say Mac),
and load it into your GS. The GS reads the forign disk (having been taught how)
and using a comparative list of machine language commands proceeds to write a
GS specific program by changing the machine level commands from mac to gs, if
the gs is lacking a command then it will be instructed to insert a small
routine to patch the discrepency in command tables. Then it puts this copy on
another disk and you can now use it on the GS. Legally there should be no
problems, once you buy a program you can alter it any way you like as long as
it is for personal use only. Is this science fiction or can it be done?
        Oh, (I know I said finally above.....), is there any GS programs that
allow one to manipulate the actual wave of a sound file? Can SynthLab do that?
If not I guess I'll have to whip one up for all you shareware users......
                                                 - Joe Nowakowski

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