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From: cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: IBeM 68000, first impressions.....
Message-ID: <1991May22.084913.4925@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 22 May 91 08:49:13 GMT
Organization: James Cook University
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Here are some first impressions of the IBeM 68k emulator.

The program was quite easy to get up and running with just one
mount command needed, I had the MessyFileSystem already installed,
put in a 3.5" IBM Bootable DOS disk and up it came. 

The first program I tried was PC Tools ver(?), remembering that the
Transformer gave a speed rating, relative to the original PC ie.
4.77 MHz, of 10%, I was keen to see how this performed with the 
colour emulation and multitasking capabilities. The rating was exactly
the same 10%.

The first problem I encountered was that if your boot disk has no     
AUTOEXEC.BAT file, when it prompts for the date upon bootup and hangs.

I also managed to crash the emulator with PC Tools, after testing the 
speed with Info, I hit ESCape to exit and it went back to AmigaDOS and
said "INVALID INSTRUCTION ENCOUNTED AT 1a44:1777". I've sent this to
Mark for him to investigate.

Overall the emulator is fun for the 68000 user and definately not for
running any serious software due to the lack of speed. 

My system is a 2000HD (Quantum 52) + 3meg, AmigaDOS 1.3.


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