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From: vidiot.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (Eric Rankin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: NeXT emulation?
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Date: 22 Apr 91 15:13:09 GMT
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> I think the NeXT will have problems emulating HAM and sprites and dual
> playfield and separate smooth-scroll/modulo for odd/even bitplanes
> and separate bitplane pointers etc.
> Also.. it's one thing to emulate programs that do ROM-calls for everything
> but there are quite a lot of programs that write to the $DFF regs
> perhaps the '040 could be instructed to cause an interrupt when it tries
> to read/write an a specific area, then it would have to se which address
> it was and perhaps change from 5 to 3 bitplanes in the middle of a scanline..
> I don't think the NeXT could handle that.

Welp, we had a NeXT representative at our school and he was good enough to 
demonstate a 386 emulator which performed faster than most 386s.  Then he 
went on to describe the Mac emulator which is in the works.
He did admit that there was no Amiga emulator and no current plan for one.  
To ruin my feeling of confidence, he said that there would probably be one 
in the near future and that it would be possible.  I don't know if he was a 
techie or merely a marketer, but who knows...

The fact is, I have no use for a NeXT!  The only thing I would do with one 
is emulate other machines (which seems kinda silly when you could buy the 
other machines for less)--think about it!

    Eric