Peck@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA.UUCP (04/15/87)
Regarding a recent posting that the atari can't emulate an amiga since
it doesn't have the hardware, but the amiga can emulate an atari since
they both use 68000's, ha.
Neither can emulate the other for the first reason you mentioned. The
atari has the midi ports, and the amiga just doesn't have them.
Aside from this, the task of emulating an atari without midi ports is
really tough to do without breaking copyright laws (ie: copy the roms).
Granted that you break to law to speed development, you still have to
find out what all the hardware addresses are even us registered
developers don't know a lot of that (look at 70% of the messages in this
group which bet for information...)
Finally, I would say that reading the disks (or converting them) would
be rather easy providing the controllers weren't too different. The
specs for IBMpc style disks are widely available.
rodney
PS: Its hard to be more arrogant than having a "AMIGA RULES!!" in your
.sig file and using it when you post to INFO-ATARI16. (especially when
you're wrong.)yuan@uhccux.UUCP (04/17/87)
In article <870415022444.002507@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA>, Peck@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA (Rodney) writes: > > Regarding a recent posting that the atari can't emulate an amiga since > it doesn't have the hardware, but the amiga can emulate an atari since > they both use 68000's, ha. > Neither can emulate the other for the first reason you mentioned. The > atari has the midi ports, and the amiga just doesn't have them. True that a "Standard" Amiga doesn't have a MIDI port built-in. But one can be easily added (either third party or home-brewed). A lot of Amiga music programs already will support a MIDI port. > Finally, I would say that reading the disks (or converting them) would > be rather easy providing the controllers weren't too different. The > specs for IBMpc style disks are widely available. With a little programming, Amiga disk controller can be made to read Atari ST disks. Going the other way will be a _bit_ more complicated. > rodney --- Yuan Chang ...!sdcsvax!nosc!uhmanoa!uhccux!yuan