Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!obelix!ptoper
From: ptoper@obelix (Andy Nagy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Amiga emulation for MSDOS
Keywords: dos amiga funny strange 80386 SVGA
Message-ID: <2265@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>
Date: 14 Feb 91 22:27:42 GMT
References: <493@cronos.metaphor.com> <4831@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <2240@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>
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In article <493@cronos.metaphor.com>, djh@neuromancer.metaphor.com
(Dallas J. Hodgson) writes:
> In article <2240@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> ptoper@obelix (Andy Nagy) writes:
> >
> >	I remember hearing (way back) about a development system for the PCs
> >used by the early (1985) Amiga programmers.  I think it was two boards that
> >plugged into the buss and gave the programmer a virtual Amiga replete with
> >custom chips, OS etc.  This system was never released because the A1000 and
> >the Sidecar eventually came out.
> >
> 
> Boy, as a 1985 Amiga developer, this is the first I've heard. In the early
> days there was a Lattice Amiga cross-compiler you could run on the PC, and
> download executables to the Amiga over the parallel port. There was also a
> cross compiler on the Sun, and a ridiculous, bulky memory add-on called the
> "Chimney" which stuck on the side of an A-1000. I'm sure I would have heard
> of this "PC-Amiga" if there ever was any such thing.
> 

	I may be totally wrong (I should have better qualified my response), 
I was using very foggy memory cells when typing that.  Maybe what you describe 
was what I was actually thinking about.  Thou I am very sure that there was a
reference to a PC board that did have the custom chips on it.

	Sorry for any confusion.

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Andy Nagy (ptoper@asterix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca)
The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
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