Xref: utzoo comp.unix.amiga:79 comp.sys.amiga.emulations:68 Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!becker!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!cimshop!davidm From: cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.emulations Subject: Re: Amiga 3000UX first impressions Message-ID: Date: 11 Jan 91 18:31:38 GMT References: <157@tcr.UUCP> <2024@travis.csd.harris.com> Sender: davidm@cimshop.UUCP Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.emulations Distribution: comp Organization: Consilium Inc., Mountain View, California Lines: 31 In-reply-to: cindy@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM's message of 10 Jan 91 13:49:32 GMT X-Posting-Software: GNUS 3.12 [ NNTP-based News Reader for GNU Emacs ] >>>>> On 10 Jan 91 13:49:32 GMT, cindy@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Cindy Walters) said: Cindy> I work on UNIX systems and I have been contemplating the purchase of a Cindy> home system that would allow me to continue to work in a UNIX Cindy> environment. I have an old (actually, two ;-) Commodore 64 system with Cindy> floppy disk drive and color monitor, and I'm naturally wondering if any Cindy> of this equipment can be used with an Amiga UX - or if I have to Cindy> completely replace with new equipment. Any ideas? Is there any market Cindy> for used Commodore 64 equipment (what about for parts?)? The short answer for the Commodore 64 equipment is that its probably not worth keeping. Finding a market for it is not very likely, but you can always try places like misc.marketplace.computers (I think that's the newsgroup). The long answer is that an AmigaUX should be bootable under AmigaDOS and there is a Commodore 64 emulator for AmigaDOS (ReadySoft software). The emulator is pretty good, but by no means great. There is also an interface for hooking up a 64 disk drive. Many pieces of 64 productivity software seem to work with it, but most games have trouble (some work, some don't, some do and don't). Disk copy protection (which most games have) is a little more than it can handle. This emulator takes over the Amiga, worked with AmigaDOS 1.3 (don't know about AmigaDOS 2.0), and operated at about 85%-90% speed (at best). For trying to make two different architectures work together, it was a really good effort (there were just limitations that had to be lived with). -- ==================================================================== David Masterson Consilium, Inc. (415) 691-6311 640 Clyde Ct. uunet!cimshop!davidm Mtn. View, CA 94043 ==================================================================== "If someone thinks they know what I said, then I didn't say it!"