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From: jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John Bruno)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.8bit,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Questions about Xformer, by D. Mihocka
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.231801.12060@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 91 23:18:01 GMT
Sender: jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John Bruno)
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Perhaps someone can answer these questions about Darek Mihocka's (Hope I got
the spelling right...) 8-bit emulator Xformer?

 1) What are the pinouts for the Xformer cable (to hook up the 8-bit's drive)?
 
 2) How does Xformer handle input from the joysticks? Are all 4 of the 8 bit's
    joysticks supported? Are only two? Do they plug into the ST's Mouse and
    joystick port? How about the "Paddles"?

 3) How well does it do with disk based copy protected games? Does the 
    "virtual floppy support" (files on hard disk) support disk based copy
    protection?

 4) How fast is it compared to a normal 8-bit?

 5) Could someone post the source code for Xformer 2.55 to terminator (Darek
    said it's now PD and is on Genie, but I don't have an account there. Has
    it made it to Compu$erve, or anywhere else I can get it?

 6) Has anyone tried M.U.L.E. or Seven Cities of Gold on it yet? If so, how
    did they work?

Thanks for any help,
---jb (jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu)