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From: pochron@rt8.cs.wisc.edu (David Pochron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Amiga Emulator for the ST. Sounds Bogus.
Summary: Possible truths in the falsehoods...
Keywords: Amiga ST
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.194338.13912@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 91 19:43:38 GMT
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In article <1991Mar12.022622.25956@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:

>From: s883334@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (James Alan Hall)
> Without wishing to start a computer war, a friend of mine has an 
>Amiga emulator for his Atari 1040ST. It is a commercial package, thats been 
>around since 1987, released by Metacomco. The manual states that it

>Can anyone confirm or deny that this Metacomco product really
>exists? Either someone is exaggerating ALOT, or Metacomco is
>falsly advertising, because I don't believe this.

Well, I don't know if this confirms it, but here is an interesting
tidbit:

   Sometime during 1987, a supposed "Amiga emulator" showed up on
on a local BBS that supported several brands of machines.  Unlike
many of the "fake" emulators that just put up a Guru screen on the
ST, this one was 420K ARCed, and the docs said it required an 
ST with a blitter installed in order to run.  I told one of the
user's who had an ST with a blitter on the BBS to try this thing
out, but they were strangely silent when asked whether they ever
got it working or not...

All I can say is the dates and requirements match, but since I never
actually saw it run, that's about all I can say.  I got the
impression from the doc file that this was strictly an "OS-emulator"
That is, if you tried to run an Amiga program that accessed the
hardware in any way, it would fail.

In any case, the reported speed of this emulator is definately bogus,
for the same reasons the author of the article I am following up to has
stated.

And the ST blitter doesn't run 40 times faster than the Amiga blitter
anyway, yet more proof there is a lot of BS in the message.

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