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From: fetrow@entropy.ms.washington.edu (David Fetrow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C-64 emulator for Amiga?
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Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 03:33:24 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 12 03:33:24 1987
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 I spent an hour or two with a C64 owner (I'm an ex-64 owner) who tried out
a variety of stuff using the afformentioned emulator. BASIC stuff generally
ran quite well, music programs ran mostly but tended to be a little slow,
most of the clever display hacks ran. We didn't have much luck with PaperClip
(which has "dongle" copy protection). The test machine was a stock Amiga 500.
We were using a 1571 drive with the Amiga adapter. It was acting just like
a standard 1541.

 There are a couple clever bits: you can save a C64 file on the Amiga disks
which speeds loads and saves by quite a bit and there was a memory extension
feature (we didn't test that).

 As a general rule the ultraclever stuff was less likely to run than the
straight-ahead stuff but that's the usual case for emulators isn't it?




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