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From: nikolai@guru.pub.uu.oz.au (nikolai kingsley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Mac emulating Amiga
Message-ID: <BNJVZ1w164w@guru.pub.uu.oz.au>
Date: 4 Apr 91 04:14:46 GMT
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Organization: The Guru Meditation BBS
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student@COVAX.CO.IUP.EDU (student) writes:

> 
>      Whoever seriously considers an Amiga emulator on a Mac likely knows
> very little about both the hardware and software of both systems.  The
> custom chips: How in the world will you emulate the blitter or copper
> at anything remotely approaching their speed?  The operating systems:
 
oh, easy.  utterly easy-peasy.  you emulate them in software. yep, in 
addition to all the other stuff the cpu does (like make the mouse move in 
jerky fits and stars when you format disks), the CPU now has to do the 
custom chip stuff as well.  that should keep the (derogatory term used to 
describe macintosh users that sounds quite a bit like self-abusers) happy 
for a while... until system 7 comes out. :-)

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