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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: We need an Amiga Emulator :-) (Re: Awesome! Now I am Pi**ed!)
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Date: 29 Nov 90 14:28:23 GMT
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mr3@ukc.ac.uk (M.Rizzo) writes:

>>  Won't run on a 3000
>>WHO CARES ? Don't buy a 3000 if you are a real video game fanatic.

>Hey a lot of people who use Amigas for serious purposes, including myself :-),
>like to play a few games every now and then. Why should A3000 owners be
>denied of playing games on their machine? Yes, I have to agree, such
>game programmers are indeed LOUSY programmers !

You know, the Amiga can emulate an IBM, Macintosh, C64, Sinclair Spectrum,
Atari ST, and God only knows what else, but what we really need is an
Amiga 500 emulator for the 3000    1/2 :-)

Someone should write a program that emulates the 68000 (including the
clock speed) and have it running as a virtual machine on the 3000. It should
also allow you to virtual boot game floppies. In other words, from the games
point of view it will be running on a 500, and can even think it has 
'taken over' the whole machine, but it will only have taken over the virtual
500, which can be running on a separate screen on the 3000. 

It shouldn't be TOO hard, the hardware is all there. You can almost do it now
by running PrivHandler (like decigel, but it survives a warm reboot, so you can
boot games that HAVE to be booted to run), and turning of the 3000's cache.
But it still is running at full 25Mhz and some games don't like this. And I am
sure there are some other differences. 

The Amiga 500 emulator should also have a variable clock speed so you can
run games at higher clock speeds if they can handle it correctly.

What do you think? [no, I am not a programmer :-) ]

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