Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!nh.UUCP!csrobe From: csrobe@nh.UUCP (Call me Mudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Amiga Emulator (Fool me once...) Message-ID: <8710221719.AA13950@nh.wmcs.uucp> Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 13:19:49 EST Article-I.D.: nh.8710221719.AA13950 Posted: Thu Oct 22 13:19:49 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 22:43:31 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 75 Ok, i'll admit it i fell for it. i really thought someone, took the time to write something that tried to emulate the Amiga in a semi-respectable fashion. BOY WAS I WRONG! For those of you who are interested in getting this thing, don't. Here's why... ---begin AMIGA_EM.DOC--- AMIGA_EM.DOC Philip I. Nelson 1987 As you've no doubt guessed, AMIGA_EM.PRG is a joke, not a serious attempt to emulate an Amiga on the Atari ST. On the plus side, AMIGA_EM.PRG is a free program; you may give a copy to anyone, provided that you don't change the program in any way. AMIGA_EM.PRG is written in assembly language and it includes several actual Amiga screens. To save space, the screens are stored in compressed format and uncompressed as needed. Needless to say, this is not a well-behaved GEM application; you can't use desk accessories, dump the screen with Alt-Help, or behave in other un-Amigalike ways. You must run AMIGA_EM.PRG in medium resolution on a color monitor. After a brief sojourn in the startup screen (click in the Emulate box or press Return if you're in doubt about what to do), you arrive in the Workbench screen. You can move the Workbench window by clicking and dragging the drag bar at the top of the window. To exit the emulator and return to the ST desktop (at your peril, I might add), click in the close gadget in the upper left corner of the Workbench window. Like much commercial software, AMIGA_EM.PRG is not finished and it does not perform as advertised (or as hoped by the foolish). Only three of the tools shown in the Workbench window are functional. (The Trashcan does nothing. How many Amiga files do you need to discard, anyway? Think about it.) If you click on the Preferences tool, you flip to the Preferences screen, which looks impressive and may convince the ignorant among your onlookers that you really are running an Amiga. Sadly, nothing on this screen works except the Cancel box. In the Workbench window is an 'Atari ST Emulator' tool. Some of the results of using this tool will be familiar to ST programmers. Amiga programmers may recognize one or few details, too. If you click on the AmigaBASIC tool, you go, naturally enough, to the Microsoft AmigaBASIC screen. Conveniently, someone already has loaded a program (a purported ST emulator) into BASIC, typed the command 'run,' and positioned the cursor immediately after that command in the BASIC Output window. If you're not curious about this situation, you can click in the Output window's close gadget and return to the Workbench. To learn what it's like to run an ST emulator from within an Amiga emulator, press the Return key. After that, you're on your own. ---end AMIGA_EM.DOC--- i guess i should have know that no one would really try to emulate the Amiga anyway. well, we (the ST) could not offer ANY multi-tasking support now could we? nor, could we support some of their custom sound (or could we? midi?). oh well, i suppose i only wanted an Amiga-like environment. Now, i have to go tell the guy that wanted it, that it was just a farce. JOY! -chip ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chip Roberson ARPANET: csrobe@icase.arpa 1105 London Company Way BITNET: $csrobe@wmmvs.bitnet Williamsburg, VA 23185 UUCP: ...!uunet!pyrdc!gmu90x!wmcs!csrobe ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *(*please note change in UUCP address ^^^^^^^^^^^ seismo is gone*)*