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From: krzywdzi@infonode.ingr.com (Andrew S Krzywdzinski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Amiga emulators
Keywords: emulator amiga
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.005727.11263@infonode.ingr.com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 00:57:27 GMT
References: <1991Feb21.212945.17672@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
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In article <1991Feb21.212945.17672@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> vernon@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Vernon Bowles) writes:
>I have been told that there are Atari ST emulators available on the Amiga, but  are there any Amiga emulators avail. for the Atari? What about MAC emulators?   (No, I dont have an ST and Im not interested in getting into a flame-out over   Amiga vs. Atari).
>
>It seems that there should be, considering the similarities in hardware.
                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's a good one :-} Sure, they run on the same CPUs, but that's about all
the similarities in that department.

My opinion is that you could write an emulator for anything to run on
anything (within reason), but the ones that get written must make sense
from an "economical" point of view. That usually translates to existing
software on the emulee, and the relative power/price of the emuler (if you
excuse my language). Neither Amiga nor Atari has a decisive advantage
in terms of computing power over one another, and the software available
for both is roughly the same.
This is NOT the case for Atari-PC, Atari-Mac, or even Atari-C64 emulators
(for the reasons mentioned above).

-andrew krzywdzinski