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From: yuan@uhccux.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: emulate an st on the amiga!?!? ha!
Message-ID: <433@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Apr-87 05:33:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 17 05:33:49 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Apr-87 05:27:33 EST
References: <870415022444.002507@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA>
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Summary: Why not?

In article <870415022444.002507@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA>, Peck@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA (Rodney) writes:
> 
>   Regarding a recent posting that the atari can't emulate an amiga since
> it doesn't have the hardware, but the amiga can emulate an atari since
> they both use 68000's, ha.
>   Neither can emulate the other for the first reason you mentioned.  The
> atari has the midi ports, and the amiga just doesn't have them.  

     True that a "Standard" Amiga doesn't have a MIDI port built-in.  But
one can be easily added (either third party or home-brewed).  A lot of Amiga
music programs already will support a MIDI port.

>   Finally, I would say that reading the disks (or converting them) would
> be rather easy providing the controllers weren't too different.  The
> specs for IBMpc style disks are widely available.

     With a little programming, Amiga disk controller can be made to read
Atari ST disks.  Going the other way will be a _bit_ more complicated.

>     rodney
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Yuan Chang
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