dgick@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (damian gick) (02/22/91)
Is there a p/d Atari Emulator out there for the Amiga? If so, is it availible on ftp someplace? Thanks! Damian J. Gick | Please send any mail to: | "...And keep on IU @ South Bend | | thinking free!" CSCI Undergrad | dgick@sbway.iusb.indiana.edu | --The Moody Blues
kc2e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kathryn Aileen Coonrod) (03/06/91)
Just a little note to you guys over there in Amiga land from over here i Atari land. Atari ST emulation is ILLEGAL, and is way way uncool. The chips necessary are proprietary, and must be pirated. Use at your own risk. (It is the same as the amiga emulator for the ST, which requires bootleg Denises and Garys, and other wacky stuff)
rjc@pogo.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) (03/06/91)
Sorry to tell you, but ATARI EMULATION is not illegal. What is illegal is distributing copies of TOS/GEM. Most of the commercial emulators require for to own an ST already, so you can say the ROM's from your ST and use them in the emulator, or to purchase the TOS roms from an Atari dealer. What is this Amiga emulator your talking about? Sounds like vaporware to me. Just consider what's needed, OS Roms, Agnus, Denise and Paula chip, along with the support circuitry and ram to support them. This isn't an emulator, it's an Amiga. The only ST emulator I can imagine is an ENTIRE Amiga motherboard on a card plugged into what? Does the ST have an expansion slot? Nevertheless, this would cost more then the ST or the Amiga itself to implement. The Amiga is one of the only computer that defies to be emulated.
jnmoyne@lbl.gov (Jean-Noel MOYNE) (03/06/91)
References:<1991Feb22.072024.4596@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <8bp40OK00WAu0HgWpI@andrew.cmu.edu> Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Message-ID: <10654@dog.ee.lbl.gov> X-Local-Date: Tue, 5 Mar 91 19:15:36 PST Date: Wed, 6 Mar 91 03:15:36 GMT In article <8bp40OK00WAu0HgWpI@andrew.cmu.edu> kc2e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kathryn Aileen Coonrod) writes: > Just a little note to you guys over there in Amiga land from over here i > Atari land. Atari ST emulation is ILLEGAL, and is way way uncool. The > chips necessary are proprietary, and must be pirated. Use at your own > risk. (It is the same as the amiga emulator for the ST, which requires > bootleg Denises and Garys, and other wacky stuff) Wrong, Atari ST emulation is _not_ illegal ! It's just copying the ROMs in a file an distributing the file which is illegal. As long as you buy the ROM chips from Atari (which is the only thing you *really* need), it is legal to run ST software on the Amiga. And it's the same for all the computers.... You should know that, there's been Mac emulators for the ST even before we had Mac emulation on the Amiga. If it was illegal to emulate a computer, IBM would be really rich now (the ROMs in a PC clone are compatible with the original IBM BIOS, but they're different. That's why you can run BASICA only on a true IBM, and you have to run GWBASIC on all the clones, BASICA does some illegal calls to the IBM original ROMs, and this doesn't work on different ROMs. Anyway the ROMs on an IBM are awfully small). Oh ! And the same thing applies for Amiga emulation, if you buy genuine chips (anyway, you can dump a ROM in a file and then load the file in RAM, but it's kinda hard to do the same thing for Denise ou Paula ((((-:), it's legal. JNM -- These are my own ideas (not LBL's)