[comp.sys.amiga] C-64 emulation

mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) (03/08/87)

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Leo Schwab writes:

[lots of discussion about emulating a C64 on an Amiga deleted]

>	Sounds like a major commercial project.  Who wants to be first?

Why bother?  Sound like a pretty worthless exercise to me.  How much
are you going to charge for this product?  Remember that I can buy a
C64 nowadays for <$150, and it will run all C64 software.  (The disk
drive doesn't count, since you'd have to buy that for the Amiga too).

Really, if you want to run software for somebody else's computer, the
best way is to buy that computer.  This is especially true in the case
of the C64, where the machine itself is very cheap.  When you also
consider the fact that Amiga software (even as crummy as it currently
is) is a few generations beyond C64 software, there really is no need
to emulate a C64 period.
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