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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Amiga emulation for MSDOS
Keywords: dos amiga funny strange 80386 SVGA
Message-ID: <883@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 91 08:03:25 GMT
References: <4831@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <2240@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <2240@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> ptoper@obelix (Andy Nagy) writes:
>In article <4831@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>, ajbanck@cs.ruu.nl (Arent Banck) writes:
>> 
>> I heard of the existence of an AMIGA emulator for the IBM-compatibles.
>> Does anybody know if such an emulator exists, and if it exists how it works,
>> where to get it etc. ?

That was the Amiga Transformer, a rather slow and limited emulator.
Only text mode, no graphics, no sound, no harddisk. In fact, we never
sold it in Germany (officially, at least). Don't know about the current
status in US.

>	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.

Sorry, but I think you mix up two things here. As far as I know, there
were two cross-development systems:
1. A software-only solution on PCs with the first version of the
   Lattice compiler and special programs to transfer the result 
   between the machines via the serial port.
2. A hardware interface that allowed software engineers to develop
   on their Suns and putting the result dirextly into the memory
   of an Amiga. Perhaps they also could debug the software by snooping
   into the Amiga from the Sun.

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