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From: c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple ][ emulation
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Date: 9 Dec 90 13:32:00 GMT
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(Re: II in a Mac)

II in a Mac is a fun little toy to play with, but if you want serious
Apple II emulation, forget it.

First off, you have to convert disks, through a null-modem cable hooked
between a II and a Mac, before you can use them.  You can, however, mount
an 800k-formatted 3.5" floppy directly, if you're using a SuperDrive.
(the new 1.44M floppys that are in the newer machines)

The emulator itself is extremely slow, because it emulates a 6502 (not
65C02), entirely through software.  On a Plus or Classic, it crawls.
On an SE/30, it's a little better.

The program maps slots to their Mac equivalent; slot 1 is the printer
port, slot 2 is the modem port, slot 5 and 6 are disk drives, etc.
It has 80-colum and graphics emulation built-in (lo-res and hi-res).

I ported several AppleSoft baSICK programs onto it, and ran them, success-
fully, but they crawled.  I even ran a BBS system on it, which was written
half in ML, half in BASIC, AND IT ACTUALLY WORKED!!  slow as molasses
however.

If you just wnat something to fool around with, then II in a Mac is ok.
But if you want to do some serious application running, like AppleWorks
or the like, then forget it.
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