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From: billw@wolf.UUCP (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Current Status of ST Emulation Packages
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Date: Thu, 18-Jun-87 13:31:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 18 13:31:42 1987
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In article <3423@ecsvax.UUCP>, tcamp@ecsvax.UUCP (Ted A. Campbell) writes:

> (a) I understand the Atari Corp. has released a CP/M emulation 
> package into the p.d.  I presume that this utilizes the on-board
> DEC VT52 terminal emulation, so that CP/M packages could be installed
> for VT52 and run on the ST.

I haven't bothered to check out the CP/M-86 emulator, but it is public
domain. I have seen it on numberous BBS systems, so availability is no
problem. I also have no idea about the VT52 aspect, but I would assume
that since it's already there, in the VDI, it is taken advantage of.

> (b) I have read several news items about "8 bit emulation."  Since
> the CP/M emulator is already available, should I presume that this
> "8-bit emulation" if for emulation of 8-bit Atari computers?  If
> not, then what is all this talk about?

Darek Mihocka, a Canadian, has written a program for the ST that will
emulate an 8-bit Atari. A while back, on one of his other programs, he
said "watch for the ST Transformer: 3-in-1 6502 Emulation: Atari, C-64
and Apple II." I don't know about the current status of the C-64 and
Apple parts, but the Atari 8bit emulator is about to be published in
Antic. (See related articles, this newsgroup.)

> (c) I have heard that a company in Florida has available a product
> (is it PCDITTO?) which emulates a pc-compatible computer with CGA
> graphics on an Atari with medium-resolution color.  Is this for
> real?  What does it cost?  Any chance they'll have a monochrome-
> compatible version.

I've heard of the program, but know nothing about it.

> (d) Many months ago I read in one of Jerry Pournelle's columns that
> he had actually seen a package that would allow an ST (or was it
> an Amiga? no offense intended--) to run MacIntosh software.  He 
> explained further that Apple intended to fight this tooth-and-nail.
> Did anything ever come of it?

The Magic Sac is a cartridge for the ST that provides it, I hear, with
near-perfect Macintosh emulation. I beleve it costs something like
$99. I haven't heard about Apple complaining, but you can be sure that
if/when they hear about it, they will. It's foreordained.
-- 
Bill Wisner
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