francois@LOIRE.EDRC.CMU.EDU (Francois Bonnafy) (04/19/91)
I offen heard from these emulators for the Atari, allowing it to run Mac software . Advertising says that it is wunderful, efficient, fast, sure... But say, who believe advertising? So my questions: - Do ALL the software for Mackies function on the emulator? - how fast is it in comparison to a Mac LC or IIsi? - How offen do the programs cras down? _ What kind of hardware can you use with it (Portrait Screens CD, ...) I will compile the answer and make a posting of it Thank you in advance Francois
s37837k@saha.hut.fi (Jari Lehto) (04/20/91)
In article <1991Apr18.211304.4775@cs.cmu.edu> francois@LOIRE.EDRC.CMU.EDU (Francois Bonnafy) writes: >I offen heard from these emulators for the Atari, allowing it to run Mac >software . Advertising says that it is wunderful, efficient, fast, sure... > >But say, who believe advertising? > >So my questions: > >- Do ALL the software for Mackies function on the emulator? Not all, but a large majority. Those having copyprotection rarely work, because they try to directly look the floppy-controller. Generally, programs that do direct hardware access, won't work I have found very few of them. >- how fast is it in comparison to a Mac LC or IIsi? With basic ST/Mega, it is 20% faster than Mac Plus. But with accelerator installed, you can even beat Mac IIfx... Dunno about these models you asked. >- How offen do the programs cras down? Some can do it regularly... But normally a crash occurs quite seldom. It depends what are you running. I have used Spectre without crash many days without even resetting the machine. And Spectre can recover from quite severe crashes too. >_ What kind of hardware can you use with it (Portrait Screens CD, ...) Almost any hardware, ST or Mac oriented. No Mac-screens can be used, but there are quite many graphics-cards available for ST. And TT has enough resolution without any cards. You can even use AppleTalk and Mac SCSI with a special interface. TT has it's own LAN, that works like AppleTalk with Spectre. >I will compile the answer and make a posting of it > >Thank you in advance > >Francois No problem. Jartsu * * * Nothing yet, but I'll keep on scanning... * * ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ *