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From: ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Nintendo Emulator?
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Date: 30 Mar 91 23:13:15 GMT
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   If you see a few versions of this message running around the net please
excuse them as pws.bull.com seems to have vaporized the two I sent to comp.
sys.amiga.emulations. Anyway, I thought I'd try it again here...

 The story: A friend of mine just picked up a 500 for small business and
game use. The Nintendo goes into storage. He'd like to continue playing his
Nintendo games that he has a lot of time invested in. Anyway, after I
explained the obvious to him about the problems this brings up, I ran upon an
interesting idea: Is there anybody working on a Nintendo emulator for the
Amiga? My knowledge of the inner workings of the Nintendo are limited so I'd
like to hear from somebody who knows what is consists of. How hard would it
be to rig up a board to download the carts onto disk for future loading? Of
course this is only half the battle. Anybody know how complex a Nintendo's
hardware is? I would assume it's an 8 bit running something like a 6502 and
not much beyond that. I would also venture that it's an easier system to
emulate because of it's limited IO versus something like the 64. I'd like to
hear more about the Nintendo's hardware and answers to the following
questions that come to mind: What does the motherboard consist of? How much
RAM does the system have and what kind of "expasion" can a cartridge add to
this? What, if any, built-in OS (software functions) does the system contain
and what kind of tricks does it use to get by (IE: bank switching, etc). Very
interested in hearing more on all of these points.

   Tom

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       Why purchase a MAC when an Amiga with the same CPU will run 99% of all
    __ MAC software..and FASTER at that?! The same can be said of the IBM and
 __/// Atari computers, and I can run those in a window. IBM's greatest sales 
 \XX/  tool is ignorance on the consumer's part. Only the Amiga! DEVO Anyone?