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From: bammi@cwruecmp.UUCP (Jwahar R. Bammi)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Many questions...
Message-ID: <1595@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Oct-86 18:09:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: cwruecmp.1595
Posted: Thu Oct  9 18:09:55 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Oct-86 08:18:47 EDT
References: <8610031818.AA03032@ucbvax> <436@atari.UUcp>
Reply-To: bammi@cwruecmp.UUCP (Jwahar R. Bammi)
Organization: CWRU Dept. Comp. Eng., Cleveland OH
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In article <436@atari.UUcp> neil@atari.UUcp (Neil Harris) writes:
>In article <8610031818.AA03032@ucbvax>, UD040164@NDSUVM1.BITNET (a.d. jensen) writes:
>
>> 1) I have heard (or think I did) a rumor that the CP/M emulator was
>>    put into the public domain, and was available from the Atari BBS.
>>    Any truth to this?  As well, how compatable is compatable?  Which
>>    video emulation is available?
>
>We hope to make it available shortly.  One snag -- if you download CP/M and
>the utilities, there is no way to get the utilities into the CP/M format.
>The utility to transfer files from TOS disk format to CP/M disk format
>happens to be written under CP/M.  If any of our European friends know of a
>solution to this (it is rumored that CP/M is being passed around on BBSs
>over there) please let me know right away!
>
	We had posted a way to do this from TOS a long time ago, right
here. If you want it again just holler.
The Cp/m emulator is being passed around on MANY BBSs right here in USA. I
feel that atari made a bigmistake by distributing it  free in europe
and not here, as it will be quite impossible to convince people to shell
out $$ for something that you are giving away for free somewhere else,
that they can get a hold of.

>> 2) I have also heard tell of a MS-DOS software based emulator which
>>    will be available shortly at around 100-150$.  Any truth to this?
>>    I heard it flunks the Flight Simulator test, and is twice as slow
>>    as the IBM ( which is awfully slow to start with ).  Can it run
>>    BASICA programs?
>
>The PC emulator will be a bit more costly than described and will function a
>whole lot better.  It will be approximately the same speed as a PC.  It
>should pass the FS test.
>

***** FLAME ON ****
The following is my opinion on the subject of all these emulators. I know
a lot of people want them. 

	It is quite evdident that atari has excellent but extremely limited
resources, to support the ST line. My opinion is that atari should be spending
these resources on getting out new and wonderful things like the TT etc, and
providing better support to existing developers( like Gdos that has 
almost become a joke, working copies of rcs, hdx, floating point on Alcyon
V 2.14 was obviously never even tested, maybe even some documentation and 
so on....). Let third party developers put out things such as games, emulators
and other addon and end user products.

****** FLAME OFF ****
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