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From: ameiba@reed.UUCP (Keith Steiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Amiga 1000s, Mac emulators, and memory
Summary: No I DON'T want to upgrade
Message-ID: <14040@reed.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 90 03:40:49 GMT
Reply-To: ameiba@reed.UUCP (Keith Steiger)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR (where everyone ELSE has a Mac)
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I own an Amiga 1000 with two disk drives and 768K (KickStart 1.2 in ROM).

I've heard people talking about Macintosh emulators, but I don't quite
understand what's involved.  Is it hardware, software, or some combination?
Do you need to buy something separate, like Mac ROMs or a Mac disk drive?
Can Amiga disk drives read Mac disks?  Can an Amiga 1000 that's already been
hacked handle the strain?  What would the bottom-line cost be?

I'm also interested in getting a little more memory.  Who still makes Amiga
1000 memory expansion stuff, and for what cost?

I'm not going to try to get a 2000 because I want to see how much the
computer world changes before I seriously commit myself.  Sooner or later, a
stable RISC microcomputer will come out.  Machines are getting much faster,
and I don't have the money to try to get continual upgrades.