jweeks@umnd-cs-luke.d.umn.edu (John A. Weeks III) (08/25/88)
> Does anyone know of any good Apple II emulators for the Mac SE? I have used "2 in a Mac" on my Mac+. It works. It reads //gs 3.5" disks just fine. It runs AppleWorks. The Mac clipboard even works (nice for bringing text into the Mac from an Apple). It is slow. Very slow. About half the speed of a //c. It seems to be a very good program, but the speed makes it intolerable. > I would love to see something that could emulate //gs graphics > and sound, but that would only be in a dream I'm afraid. I think it is a dream. The economics is not there. The program would be a large effort, and thus expensive. The market for this would be rather limited. Few people with a Mac would run Apple 2 applications when they have Mac applications (it would be faster w/o emulation). Anyone with a real need would just buy an Apple. The Laser 128 is real cheap, $399 it think I saw, cheaper than what the emulation program might cost. This leaves only the game players, who would more than likely would just pirate the thing anyway. I personally would like to see a //gs in a Mac, but even a great program would have problems. What do you do with copy protection, 5.25" drives, color, the sound chip, and Dos 3.3? Too bad. I still like AppleWorks better than any Mac or PC word muncher that I have used (why don't columns of numbers line up on the Mac??). The SoftPC seems to have this same problem. You need a PC drive (very expensive for the Mac), or else a PC (why buy the program?) just to get the data into a Mac. And at $500 a copy, I an not going to try it, no matter how good people have said it is. Someday soon we will have a RISC-type chip that can emulate any processor simply by changing a ROM. 10 years??? OS/2: Just Say No! An Apple-A-Day Takes My Credit Card Away. ------------------------------------------------------------------- John Weeks jweeks@luke.d.umn.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------