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From: randy@tessa (randy frank)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple ][ emulation
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Date: 10 Dec 90 15:17:00 GMT
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	The ][ in a mac software runs fairly well on an si range machine.
It does not support color and supports 80column text but not DHGR.  It
runs pretty good in 1 bit video but not at 8 bits.  It emulates a non-
enhanced apple//e I believe.  (ie cannot run stock appleworks) It also
double buffers by redrawing the screen completely instead of having 
screen ready bitmaps of both HGR screens and just using copybits.  The
result is that in programs which use page flipping for smoother animation
the emulation really slows down.  I also found some bugs in its emulation.
I could not run some graphics programs under it (read: some games hung up 
the emulation).

	Alternatives: The UNIX //e emulator (ftp isca.icaen.uiowa.edu)
will emulate an Apple//e enhanced (ie runs appleworks) under AUX.  It
only emulates text modes but it is FREE.  There is a standard MAC version
in the works (probably TEXT, GR, and HGR) hopefully done early 1991 and it
should be FREE (or at a very minimal cost).
--
rjf.
Randy Frank, Engineer                       |  (319) 335-6712       
University of Iowa, Image Analysis Facility |  73 EMRB              
randy@tessa.iaf.uiowa.edu                   |  Iowa City, IA 52242