Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: GKZ117@uriacc.uri.edu (F. Michael Theilig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Mac can emulate amiga&has over 1,000,000 colors Message-ID: <49450@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 1 Apr 91 13:23:16 GMT Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.edu Lines: 46 On 29 Mar 91 04:26:08 GMT Wayne G Rigby said: >In article <49174@nigel.ee.udel.edu> "PETER C. FREY" > writes: [Muncha, muncha] > >As to emulating an Amiga, possible, but not probable. A legal Amiga emulator >would need a hardware board in which all the custom chips could be placed. >This would probably run slower than a normal Amiga. You would not need to use Amiga chips, if a complete ROM emulation was achieved. It would be, in all probability, a much harder task than AMAX was, but it is possible, and the legal issue can be addressed. > A software Amiga >emulator would be extremely slow, even on an fx. Look at the C64 >emulators and how slow they run with only a few custom chips being >emulated. I'm sure Commodore would also raise a legal eyebrow at such >a device. I also browse through my roomate's MacWorld's and don't >remember seeing such a device mentioned. > People have reverse-engineered Sparc chips, Intel chips, IBM's BIOS and Mac's ROMs, there's nothing stopping them from doing it to Commodore. Some of those examples haven't proven to be totally legal, but even if they aren't, there likely will be more sucessful attempts in the future. If such an emulator does apear, it would probably be a serious feather in Commodore's hat, as the speed comparision would be rediculous. I would wager that the fastest Mac wouldn't touch even a stock Amiga when it comes to anything that uses the custom chips. Then compare AMAX. Nobody smart enough to do such a project would do it. > > Metahawk > metahawk@rpi.edu To clarify, I wasn't insinuating someone building compatible custom chips, but that they re-write the exec and intuition routines that utilize them, doing everything "longhand". Also, a mac running this theoretical emulator would run reasonably fast until they hit the emulated custom chip part of the show. Then it would drag. -------- F. Michael Theilig - The University of Rhode Island at Little Rest GKZ117 at URIACC.Bitnet GKZ117 at URIACC.URI.edu Though you'd like to know.