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From: don@brahms.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Amiga ST Emulators (was Re: TT's and NeXT)
Keywords: Junk
Message-ID: <17097@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: 29 Dec 90 22:55:56 GMT
References: <1990Dec28.160652.19458@maths.tcd.ie> <37358@cup.portal.com> <1990Dec29.215417.22716@cs.olemiss.edu>
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In article <1990Dec29.215417.22716@cs.olemiss.edu> tony@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Tony Reynolds) writes:
>
>Now, if anyone has a *real* emulator, or a better joke ST emulator, let me
>know....
>

	From p.109 of the Feb 1991 (!) issue of Amigaworld:

		brainSTorm
		The MAST Atari emulator

Runs approx 98% of ST s/w, including MIDI support.  Only programs
	which should have problems are those doing direct DMA or
	programming the MFP.  
Supports all ST resolutions incl. color, 8 meg fast & 2 meg CHIP
	RAM (Amiga side, not really related to Atari side)
Full page monitor emulation w/scrolling (by this I assume it's
	talking about the Moniterm monitor, for which an Amiga version
	is also available).
Uses amiga par & ser ports & all floppy drives (no mention of HD
	support)
Two ST's at same time on Amiga
"Almost ST speed, text is 120% faster, disk 108%"
sockets for ST ROMS, hw emulation of Atari custom chips

	The above is paraphrased from MAST's ad.  Cost is $99.  No mention of
whether it will work on accelerated Amigas, no mention of HD support.  MAST
has been around for a while, but their products, from my observations,
have a mediocre reputation, and their record for getting products out on
time is terrible (Their Infinity Machine is second only to the Video Toaster
(which BTW, is finally shipping, & is incredible!) in the "Biggest Amiga
Vaporware of the decade" category).

	In Germany there are supposedly several ST emulators.  This is apparently
based on one of them.

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