Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!gatech!bloom-beacon!mintaka!pogo.ai.mit.edu!rjc
From: rjc@pogo.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Atari Emulator?
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.024733.7889@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 02:47:33 GMT
References: <1991Feb22.072024.4596@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <8bp40OK00WAu0HgWpI@andrew.cmu.edu>
Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius)
Organization: None
Lines: 18


 Sorry to tell you, but ATARI EMULATION is not illegal. What is illegal
is distributing copies of TOS/GEM. Most of the commercial emulators
require for to own an ST already, so you can say the ROM's from your
ST and use them in the emulator, or to purchase the TOS roms from
an Atari dealer.

  What is this Amiga emulator your talking about? Sounds like vaporware
to me. Just consider what's needed, OS Roms, Agnus, Denise and Paula
chip, along with the support circuitry and ram to support them.
This isn't an emulator, it's an Amiga. The only ST emulator I can
imagine is an ENTIRE Amiga motherboard on a card plugged into
what? Does the ST have an expansion slot?

  Nevertheless, this would cost more then the ST or the Amiga itself
to implement.

The Amiga is one of the only computer that defies to be emulated.