Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations Subject: Re: Amiga Emulator for the ST. Sounds Bogus. Message-ID: <19799@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 13 Mar 91 03:00:00 GMT References: <91070.090306JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> <3047@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx> <1991Mar12.022622.25956@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <19794@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 44 In article <19794@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >In article <1991Mar12.022622.25956@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes: >> 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. > >This is undoubtedly bogus. First of all, there wasn't much Metacomco code in >the original AmigaOS anyway; what was there was simply part of the DOS >subsystem. They might try to sell you a version of Tripos for the ST, but >it wouldn't be an Amiga emulator. Plus even if there as, most of the code is copyright by Commodore. They could at best to a separate port of tripos (without copying what they did for commodore). And that only covers dos, which is about 1/8 of the rom. >>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. > >This is the first I have heard of any such product. I would consider that >very strange for any product of any significance to the Amiga market that's >supposedly been around since '87. My guess is that this is totally bogus. I second that guess. Also, Metacompco has been out of business for a while, I believe. The only thing I know of that they released for the ST was the bcpl compiler (and they're welcome to it). Ask him to show it to you (and make sure it's not a trick program - take a real amiga floppy with programs on it). BTW, I don't think the ST floppy controller can read amiga-formatted disks (very different low-level format that most controller chips puke on). Or, more amusing, try to have him show you the packaging, with the name "metacompco" on it, or an ad _from metacompost_ (not just a silly rumor column).... Sheesh. -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup The compiler runs Like a swift-flowing river I wait in silence. (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)