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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PC Emulators
Summary: Colour?
Message-ID: <1990Jan9.133219.21593@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 9 Jan 90 13:32:19 GMT
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In article <5970@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cs161fca@sdcc10.ucsd.edu ( ) writes:
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>For little more than $400, you can get a complete XT with a monitor.
>So why spend money on [PC] emulators, anyway?

Good point.  I bought a 9.7 Mhz NEC Multispeed for just $640 US
recently, which not only is a perfect emulator, it permits true
multitasking (I run it at the same time as the ST).  However, when my
PCditto upgrade board arrives I plan to install it in an ST with a
colour monitor, since colour is expensive even on the PC.

For what PCditto costs ($200 for the upgrade) it is probably worth it,
but I agree that there is probably not much value at today's prices in
buying a PC emulator from scratch.
-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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