Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ltf From: ltf@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Lance Franklin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Emulators Message-ID: <5747@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Date: 8 Oct 88 03:47:24 GMT References: <716@umbio.MIAMI.EDU> <389@ga.ecn.purdue.edu> Reply-To: ltf@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Lance Franklin) Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx Lines: 24 In article <389@ga.ecn.purdue.edu> rodmar@ga.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP (Rodney L Martin) writes: >It may be true that there is a mac emulator COMING out for the amiga, and that >it is faster than an SE on the Atari ST. My question was why the IBM emulator >on the ST is so much faster than on the Amiga. Isn't the Amiga a more powerful >machine? It's my understanding that the IBM emulator for the ST was, in fact, written by the same guy who did the Transformer for the Amiga...it was, however, done AFTER the Transformer, and hence, benefits from whatever the guy learned on the Amiga. The Transformer, unfortunately, has not been improved (except for a few patches to let it run under 1.2 and on the 2000) since it's introduction, whereas the IBM emulator on the ST has gone through several revisions since its initial introduction, improving in the process. In other words, it's the software, not the hardware. :-) Lance -- +-------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------+ | Lance T Franklin | | I never said that! It must be some kind of a | | ltf@killer.DALLAS.TX.US | | forgery...I gotta change that password again. | +-------------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------+