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From: kim@amdahl.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: MacSac for Amy
Message-ID: <18477@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 20:15:15 EST
Article-I.D.: amdahl.18477
Posted: Thu Nov 19 20:15:15 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Nov-87 17:16:37 EST
Organization: Amdahl Corporation,  Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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Keywords: Macintosh Magic Sac


[ Lineeaters ... just say NO! ]

Pete Jordan posted the following on our internal Amiga conference.
Kinda interesting, if you wanna run some Mac programs ...
 
/kim


> Mac emulation on Amigas & Sam Tramiel
>
> I just called Data Pacific in Denver (303-733-8158).  They did confirm
> that the Mac emulator for the Amiga (magic sac or whatever) will be
> coming out as a real product 1st quarter of 1988.  I don't know about
> you but I find that very exciting.  The Amiga will have the best of
> three worlds (Amiga, IBM, & MAC).  Spread the news on all bulletin
> boards.
>
> I've heard that Commodore is interested in the product
> but *cannot* help at all because of potential lawsuits with Apple and
> who wants that.
>
> I listened to Sam Tramiel of Atari on the Computer Show (Nov 17).
> He did a pretty good job except one comment that really bothered me:
> He said that he considers the Amiga a good color machine but *not* a
> business machine because it doesn't offer 640 X 400 monochrome mode!!
> That was very upsetting to me since I have been running my Amiga 500
> in 640 x 400 interlace mode with a medium persistence monitor for
> quite awhile now with business packages such as WordPerfect, LosistiK,
> Draw Plus, Workbench, Online!, etc.  So I take offense to Sam's
> erroneous statement.  In other words, with a high persistence monitor
> or a multi scan monitor with a deinterlacer, the Amiga makes an
> *excellent* business machine.  In fact I think its the best *technical*
> price performance machine on the market.  But then I'm pretty biased.
> Other than that, Sam put on a good show for his ST line with a little
> tidbit about their powerful new transputer as well.
>
> I'm hoping that within a month or so Commodore will be a guest on the
> Computer Show and put on an extremely powerful Amiga display to dazzle
> everyone with super games to powerful business stuff, and maybe
> some exciting hardware announcements as well.  Their current
> ad campaign and push for expanding Amiga outlets is promising.  Don't
> stop now.


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