rodmar@ga.ecn.purdue.edu (Rodney L Martin) (10/06/88)
I have seen the mac emulator and also the IBM emulator on the ST. Their mac emulator is even FASTER than a standard mac!! In a matter of fact, their IBM emulator runs MUCH faster that ours and even does graphics!! What is it with amiga that limits IBM emulation? The ST has really impressed me with its emulation capabilities. Would someone please enlighten me on why I bought an amiga!! Rod Martin
dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (10/06/88)
:I have seen the mac emulator and also the IBM emulator on the ST. Their mac :emulator is even FASTER than a standard mac!! In a matter of fact, their :IBM emulator runs MUCH faster that ours and even does graphics!! What is it :with amiga that limits IBM emulation? The ST has really impressed me with :its emulation capabilities. Would someone please enlighten me on why I bought :an amiga!! : :Rod Martin Your comparison is way out of context. You are comparing the skills of the respective programmers for the products, not the machines on which the products run. This is because the machines all run at the same relative speed for the base machine (I am *not* talking about the Mac II here). Besides, there is more demand in the Atari arena for that sort of thing. Most Amigans are quite happy with its OS and use a bridgecard when they want IBM compatibility. -Matt
sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) (10/09/88)
In Message <388@ga.ecn.purdue.edu>, rodmar@ga.ecn.purdue.edu (Rodney L Martin) writes: >I have seen the mac emulator and also the IBM emulator on the ST. Their mac >emulator is even FASTER than a standard mac!! In a matter of fact, their >IBM emulator runs MUCH faster that ours and even does graphics!! What is it >with amiga that limits IBM emulation? The ST has really impressed me with >its emulation capabilities. Would someone please enlighten me on why I bought >an amiga!! Dave H. has already explained why its easier to emulate the Mac vs the IBM. What I don't understand is that from the last line in your message it sounds like you didn't buy an Amiga for the Amiga but rather as an emulator. I see where a better (read - color, graphic, & sound) version of Transformer would be a big boom to the Amiga, but even without such an item I don't need anyone to enlighten me on why I bought an Amiga. I bought mine for the abilities of the Amiga as a computer, not its emulation ability (or lack of). -- Dan "Sneakers" Schein {alegra|amiga|rutgers|uunet}!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers Sneakers Computing 2455 McKinley Ave. Of course heimat is an Amiga. West Lawn, PA 19609 Doesn't everyone run UUCP & UseNet on an Amiga? Call: BERKS AMIGA BBS - 40 Meg - 24 Hrs - 3/12/2400 Baud - 215/678-7691