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From: rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga Emulators
Message-ID: <gXGgcst88k-00=SJ5p@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 88 01:19:52 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon
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I've noticed that there seems to be a lot of talk of various emulators lately
(ie Should the new amigas have At & PS/2 slots, Is there going to be a
Mac Emulator etc.)  Well in any case, I've noticed that in general emulators
are Kludges, sinc they are trying to copy hardware using software (this is
even true for bridge card to some extent, ie. the display etc.).  I've wondered
why doesn't some one make a program that, instead of trying to emulate all of
the hardware, doesn't take the software and create 68K machine code, treating
the software as "source" code of a high level language (in this case one which
has all the attributes of say an IBM or a Mac...).  Granted this is a lot of
work, but then so is an "interpreted" emulator (like our good friend the
transformer).  Also, to simplify it could one create specific patches for
specific programs, I should think that given all the efor put into an
emulator package, and the fact that the current emulators either offer
unacceptably slow (all software, ie transformer or C64 emulators) or
more expensive then the machine to be emulated (sidecar/bridge card).
Any comments? (I'm sure that some people are waiting to flame me out of
existance, about how impossibly difficult this would be, but it's just
an idea, so save the energy...)

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