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From: philip@dalcsug.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Rumour Check
Message-ID: <61@dalcsug.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Apr-87 14:19:27 EST
Article-I.D.: dalcsug.61
Posted: Thu Apr 16 14:19:27 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Apr-87 00:06:38 EST
References: <3453@udenva.UUCP>
Reply-To: philip@dalcsug.UUCP (Peter Philip)
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
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In article <3453@udenva.UUCP> pbrody@udenva.UUCP (Paul Brody ) writes:
>#define(Reality.off)
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>1. An Atari ST emulator for the Amiga is under development and will be 
>released relatively soon.

I'm not impressed.  Relative to what?

>2. There is an Apple IIe emulator for the Atari ST, and there may be one for
>the Amiga, except that it will also handle IIgs without all the sound.

  Sounds good but I think that it would be a hardware thingy not software - 
it takes alot of CPU time to emulate a 6502 (boy that sounds weird :-) I have
a partially working 6502 emulator in 68000 assembler that I MIGHT be able to
get up to 40% speed of a 1 MHZ 6502, subtract from that the time it would
take to emulate all of the graphics calls etc and you would end up with the
equivalent of a .1 MHZ Apple ][!  I am not saying that it isn't possible,
but if it can be done, then I tip my hat to the genius who can do it.

>3. A company called Humter systems is developing a program that will run IBM
>PC software at 100% native speed of 68000 machines, and has alreday been
>demonstrated working on the MacIntosh.

See above.  Do you mean that it will emulate a 7.12 MHZ 8088? or a 4.17 MHZ
8088?  I know next to nothing about 8088 assembler so I don't know how hard
it would be to emulate.  Maybe a 4.17 MHZ emulator is possible (with hardware)

>#define(Reality.on)
>
>Well, does anyone know anything ?

No, not really, I'm only guessing.

Peter Philip
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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