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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Mac can emulate amiga&has over 1,000,000 colors
Message-ID: <1040@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 91 16:49:42 GMT
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Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
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In article <49450@nigel.ee.udel.edu> GKZ117@uriacc.uri.edu (F. Michael Theilig) writes:
>On 29 Mar 91 04:26:08 GMT Wayne G Rigby said:
>>
>>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.

Ever heard of Blitter and Copper? The ROM is the smaller problem IMHO,
because you can legally buy Kickstart disks. But to emulate these
chips in software, sounds nearly impossible, at least for the copper.

>>                                                     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.

You only talk about ROMs, and these are really not the point in question.
It's that real-time power which is only provided by these Amiga chips.

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