Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!yale!eagle.wesleyan.edu!jtreworgy From: jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: MS-DOS emulation Message-ID: <1990Nov15.205709.35882@eagle.wesleyan.edu> Date: 16 Nov 90 01:57:08 GMT References: <1990Nov11.232040.5134@stretch.cs.mun.ca> <15828@cbmvax.commodore.com> <60592@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Organization: Wesleyan University Computing Center Lines: 19 In article <60592@unix.cis.pitt.edu>, gwalborn@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Gary D Walborn) writes: > In article , dlt@locus.com (Dan Taylor) writes: >> >> By the way, any more interest on the net for a real software emulator? > > Dan, > I think a software IBM emulator for the Amiga would be great! I have > been using SoftPC for the Mac and my AMAX II (i.e. an Amiga emulating > Gary Walborn Can this really be true? Is the Amiga old enough that it's users are divided by a generation gap? How quickly everyone has forgotten the Transformer- in fact, the Amiga had the first ever software emulator of an IBM--- long before SoftPC. Sure, it's not speedy on a stock 68000 machine, but hell, it works, and quite reliably at that. But there it is... no hardware required! -- James A. Treworgy -- No quote here for insurance reasons -- jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu jtreworgy%eagle@WESLEYAN.BITNET