Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!oliveb!tymix!antares!pnelson From: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Emulators Summary: get a BridgeBoard Message-ID: <184@antares.UUCP> Date: 8 Oct 88 02:23:10 GMT References: <716@umbio.MIAMI.EDU> <389@ga.ecn.purdue.edu> Reply-To: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson) Organization: Tymnet QSATS, San Jose CA Lines: 27 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? Assuming you are talking about the Transformer, if it's slower, it's probably because it is not quite as efficiently written. Anyway, turning an Amiga into a PC clone (even temporarily) is not very useful, in my opinion. The Amiga is a multitasking machine when running under AmigaDOS, but not when you run the Transformer. I tried it, and I didn't like it. Probably if I had an Atari, I would not have noticed, since I would not be accustomed to running more than one program at once. Running *BM PC programs in a window while still running Amiga programs is useful, You can do this with the 2000 and a BridgeBoard. I have both, and am happy to say that I use the BridgeBoard often. With the BridgeBoard, I have compatibility without losing multi-tasking. For me, the BridgeBoard works where the Transformer did not. -- {ames|pyramid}oliveb!tymix!antares!pnelson | Parallel IQ (the IQ of a group) OnTyme: NSC.P/Nelson POTS: (408)922-7508 | may be easily calculated given Disclaimer: Not officially representing | the IQ of each member - use the McDonnell Douglas Corporation policy. | formula for parallel resistance.