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From: be@arium.stgt.sub.org (Bernd Ebach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: QL Emulator on ST
Message-ID: <3455617@arium.stgt.sub.org>
Date: 10 Mar 91 18:42:40 GMT
Organization: The Great Circling Poets of Arium
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In article <klamer.668332644@mi.eltn.utwente.nl> klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl
(Klamer Schutte -- Universiteit Twente) writes:

> In <5333311@arium.stgt.sub.org> be@arium.stgt.sub.org (Bernd Ebach) writes:
> 
> >In article <klamer.667494771@mi.eltn.utwente.nl> klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl
> >(Klamer Schutte -- Universiteit Twente) writes:
> 
> >> In <1991Feb23.063153.22410@isis.cs.du.edu> rcarter@isis.cs.du.edu (Ron Carter) writes:
> >> 
> >> >CPU is the same (or did the QL use a 68008 or maybe a 68010?)
> >> 				      ^^^^^ 68008 it was
> 
> >Very close. To be more specific exactly the same besides just 8Bit
> >Data~ and 20Bit AdressBus.
>
> For clearity: the 68008 is just a 68000 in a package with less pins.

Just what I said... :-)

> >> Should be possible, but probably is difficult. Most programs on the QL are picky
> >> about their screen resolution :-(
> 
> >Has been done. For ST with extentional hardware (for displaying 512x256).
> >For Amiga without any hardware but less kompatibility.
>
> But we were talking about an PD one -- additional hardware means $$$.

O.K. now how about that one: Take one of those stupid Amigas and grap
the PD QL-Emulator (yes, there is one) for it. It's just soft and it's
free :-) harhar ... no flamewar please.

 ... NO FLAMEwar, I said!

> Passing parameters through registers is more efficient.

It definitly is. Especially when you have to push 32Bit parameters
through an 8Bit bus on the stack. BUT I hate to look up which
parameter has to be in which register all the time.

TschauTschau
		Bernd
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