samir_siddiqui@brains.UUCP (Samir Siddiqui) (05/25/89)
ST Emulator for the Amiga:
Did anyone out there ever come across an Atari ST emulator for the
Amiga, that was written by a bunch of people in Australia? It is a 32K .wrp
file. If so, could someone please tell if this program really works, and if
so, how well. I got this program off of Berks Amiga BBS a while ago. Thanks
in advance.
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I got the ST emulator a few months back, it never worked no matter what I did. I tried TOS disks, regular boot disks Nothing worked. -Roger
ecarroll@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie (Eddy Carroll) (06/01/89)
In article <4556@brains.UUCP>, samir_siddiqui@brains.UUCP (Samir Siddiqui) writes: > ST Emulator for the Amiga: > > Did anyone out there ever come across an Atari ST emulator for the > Amiga, that was written by a bunch of people in Australia? It is a 32K .wrp > file. If so, could someone please tell if this program really works, and if > so, how well. I got this program off of Berks Amiga BBS a while ago. Thanks > in advance. Someone uploaded that to my local BBS (here in Ireland) a while ago, and I had a look at it. The 32K in the file seem to be mostly taken up with an IFF picture which is displayed while the emulator is supposedly loading. As far as I can remember, the only other thing of interest is a small (~2K) loader program which is called from the startup-sequence. I didn't investigate, but I'd take a rough guess that the original emulator was written by some hackers who stored it directly on the disk (bypassing AmigaDOS) and hence the sectors it was stored on weren't marked in the disk bitmap as in use. The loader's job would have been to bring this stuff in from disk. When the disk was Warped, Warp only bothered archiving the sectors marked as in use, and ignored the rest. This seems like a reasonable explanation. If this is true though, it means that there is a WORKING version of the much fabled ST emulator going around somewhere out there. Has anyone heard anything? -- Eddy Carroll ----* Genuine MUD Wizard | "You haven't lived until INTER: ecarroll@cs.tcd.ie | until you've died in UUCP: {..uunet}!mcvax!ukc!cs.tcd.ie!csvax1!ecarroll | MUD!" - Richard Bartle