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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: We need an Amiga Emulator :-) (Re: Awesome! Now I am Pi**ed!)
Message-ID: <3929@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 90 15:52:09 GMT
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chymes@zug.csmil.umich.edu (Charles Hymes) writes:


>What we really need is a litte 68000 co-prosessor in the  CPU slot.

But why do it in hardware and waste a slot when you can do it in software?
What do you do with your little hardware card if you want to install a
68040 card?
>I hope such a product is never created, because we need ALL software
>writers to write CHIP INDEPENDENT CODE!!!!

Yeah, and we all need to live in peace and harmony and cure all diseases, etc.

In an Ideal World (tm) all software would be written so that it would work
on all platforms, but this isn't an ideal world. There will always be software
that won't work on all Amigas. Face it, some programmers will write software
that works on 500's but not 3000's. And some of this software will be pretty
good (or you might have it left over from the time you had a 500 and then
bought a 3000 and it no longer works) and you will want to run it. But you
can't. so there needs to be some way to patch the software or the machine
to allow it to run the software.

My suggestion was to make a software package that makes the program think
that it is on a 500. 


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