Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!well!farren From: farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations Subject: Re: NeXT emulation? Message-ID: <24501@well.sf.ca.us> Date: 30 Apr 91 06:11:01 GMT References: <1991Apr21.140846.6087@cs.umu.se> Lines: 26 vidiot.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (Eric Rankin) writes: >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... He was a marketer. Not only that, he was a LYING marketer. There is no way - that is, NO WAY - that a software-based 386 emulator running on a 68040 box is going to outperform any hardware-based 386 system, period. I don't know what his scam was, but am certain it was a scam. As far as Mac emulation, big deal - we've got that already, and to do it on a NeXT would be the next best thing to trivial. And as for Amiga emulation, see the previous postings - an Amiga emulator for the NeXT would pretty much have to be an Amiga on a card. Not an "emulator" in my book. Show me how a NeXT is going to emulate, in software, attached sprites, HAM mode, custom copper lists, horizontal fine scrolling, Amiga sound, and Amiga DMA in real time - because if it can't do that, it isn't an "Amiga emulator". -- Mike Farren farren@well.sf.ca.us