mpsimon@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (M. Patrick Simon) (10/21/87)
I have noticed at least 4 messages concerning "the long awaited Amiga emulator". In at least one of them, the program was described (briefly), but apparently people either did not pay attention or did not understand. Let me re-iterate: THE AMIGA EMULATOR PROGRAM IS A PRACTICAL JOKE, AND NOTHING MORE. The program does not (!!!!) run Amiga software on the ST. When run, all it does is bring up a fair replica of the Amiga desktop on the ST (color systems only, I think), and allow you to "run" one program, an Atari ST emulator for the Amiga, which, true to form, crashes. Puhlease, netters, do not think this program is serious. I spent the better part of an hour trying to download this program from ATARINET several weeks ago, found out what it could do, cursed for about 15 seconds, chuckled for oh 30 more (was I had, or what?), and promptly forgot about it. I advise those of you who don't feel particularly compelled to waste your time on some programmer's practical joke to do likewise (i.e. forget about it). Then again, now I've ruined the surprise for those of you who like practical jokes :-).