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From: m0154@tnc.UUCP (GUY GARNETT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Amiga emulation for MSDOS
Keywords: dos amiga funny strange 80386 SVGA
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Date: 20 Feb 91 19:13:26 GMT
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There was indeed in 1985 a IBM-PC based Amiga emulator.  It was used
by Electronic Arts to develop Amiga software because they couldn't get
enough Amiga hardware to test on.  I beliee it is mentioned in an
article about Electronic Arts in the Premiere Issue of AmigaWorld.  I
will attempt to locate the reference and post it to the net.

There was also a PC based Lattice cross-compiler, and a Sun-based
cross compiler.  The original Amiga developer's kit included both the
native and cross versions of the Lattice compiler, as well as
utilities for downloading binaries from a Sun (in case you didn't have
the interface board).  It also included the MCC Assembler, ALINK,
Grand-WACK, and a complete set of manuals (for v1.0, of course).

A bunch of us were students at GWU and ordered (as a group; we each
had an amiga, and we each pitched in for the $500 developer's kit) the
developer's kit.  When we couldn't write a diskcopy-like program after
a week of trying, we did the only logical thing: formed a user's
group (we never did get the disk copy code to work, but we eventually
got RJ to come and speak to one of our meetings).  :)

Amiga Nostalgia from ...
                          ... Wildstar