philip@dalcsug.UUCP (04/16/87)
In article <3453@udenva.UUCP> pbrody@udenva.UUCP (Paul Brody ) writes: >#define(Reality.off) > >1. An Atari ST emulator for the Amiga is under development and will be >released relatively soon. I'm not impressed. Relative to what? >2. There is an Apple IIe emulator for the Atari ST, and there may be one for >the Amiga, except that it will also handle IIgs without all the sound. Sounds good but I think that it would be a hardware thingy not software - it takes alot of CPU time to emulate a 6502 (boy that sounds weird :-) I have a partially working 6502 emulator in 68000 assembler that I MIGHT be able to get up to 40% speed of a 1 MHZ 6502, subtract from that the time it would take to emulate all of the graphics calls etc and you would end up with the equivalent of a .1 MHZ Apple ][! I am not saying that it isn't possible, but if it can be done, then I tip my hat to the genius who can do it. >3. A company called Humter systems is developing a program that will run IBM >PC software at 100% native speed of 68000 machines, and has alreday been >demonstrated working on the MacIntosh. See above. Do you mean that it will emulate a 7.12 MHZ 8088? or a 4.17 MHZ 8088? I know next to nothing about 8088 assembler so I don't know how hard it would be to emulate. Maybe a 4.17 MHZ emulator is possible (with hardware) >#define(Reality.on) > >Well, does anyone know anything ? No, not really, I'm only guessing. Peter Philip Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia -------------------------- Look Ma! No disclaimers ! --------------------------