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From: ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Lance Franklin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: C128 emulator?
Message-ID: <300@ncmicro.lonestar.org>
Date: 25 Feb 91 05:19:06 GMT
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In article <91054.231708JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes:
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}Mind you, if you did a C-128 bridgeboard of sorts, with the actual
}chips on a board like the 8088 and 2286 bridgeboards, that would be
}very compatible and speedy, but I would doubt there is much of a
}market at all.

Depends on how you did it.  Now, if you took the path that some IBM-PC
hw-emulators have taken and put the thing on the A500's internal
expansion board, along with the standard expansion memory, it might
be marketable as an easy upgrade path for current C64/128 owners.

Of course, you'd still have to work out the disk interface...do you
provide a connection for the old 1541/71 drives, or work out a way
to use the A500's drive (which causes some problems for copy-protected
programs or fast-loaders).  And what about cartridges?

Lance

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