davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) (01/12/91)
>>>>> On 10 Jan 91 13:49:32 GMT, cindy@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Cindy Walters) said:
Cindy> I work on UNIX systems and I have been contemplating the purchase of a
Cindy> home system that would allow me to continue to work in a UNIX
Cindy> environment. I have an old (actually, two ;-) Commodore 64 system with
Cindy> floppy disk drive and color monitor, and I'm naturally wondering if any
Cindy> of this equipment can be used with an Amiga UX - or if I have to
Cindy> completely replace with new equipment. Any ideas? Is there any market
Cindy> for used Commodore 64 equipment (what about for parts?)?
The short answer for the Commodore 64 equipment is that its probably not worth
keeping. Finding a market for it is not very likely, but you can always try
places like misc.marketplace.computers (I think that's the newsgroup).
The long answer is that an AmigaUX should be bootable under AmigaDOS and there
is a Commodore 64 emulator for AmigaDOS (ReadySoft software). The emulator is
pretty good, but by no means great. There is also an interface for hooking up
a 64 disk drive. Many pieces of 64 productivity software seem to work with
it, but most games have trouble (some work, some don't, some do and don't).
Disk copy protection (which most games have) is a little more than it can
handle. This emulator takes over the Amiga, worked with AmigaDOS 1.3 (don't
know about AmigaDOS 2.0), and operated at about 85%-90% speed (at best). For
trying to make two different architectures work together, it was a really good
effort (there were just limitations that had to be lived with).
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