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From: Steve_Godun@rubbs1.UUCP (Steve Godun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Amiga ST?
Message-ID: <48.229281A2@rubbs1.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 88 22:19:38 GMT
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The chances of an Amiga running ST software is about as remote as seeing a sperm whale climb up Mt Everest and announcing that McDonalds hamburgers are cheap substitutes for floor wax.
 
Why?  First, the programming invloved would be too extensive, taking up at least 400K-500K, which for many Amiga owners would render the "ST Emulator" worthless, since all they have is 512K.  Next, the speed of the emulator would be about nil, since an Atari 1040ST running at a full 8Mhz can emulate a wimpy 6502 Atari 8-bit at about .5Mhz.  Since the Amiga is almost a full point slower than the ST (8Mhz for the ST compared to 7.16Mhz on the Amiga), the Amiga would process at about .00001Mhz running ST soft




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are.  Third, since most games (since that's what you'd be running, so you say) run in ST low resolution, which is half the resolution of the Amiga screen both vertically and horizontally.  Thus, for each refresh cycle of the screen, the Amiga would have to color in FOUR pixels to match ONE ST pixel, slowing down the Amiga even more.
 
If you think I'm putting down the Amiga, you're basically right.  Being an ST owner and avid Atarian since '79, I can give you many reasons why the Amiga can't stand up to the ST, but I don't want to start a war and I'm sure you have the maturity not to start one either.
 
More vaporware for the Amiga will be announced shortly.
 
                                                    -STeve
 
PS: Why do you think the ST can emulate a Mac and the Amiga can't?