PYC118@uriacc.uri.edu (Rasiel) (04/09/91)
With all the talk about NeXT vs. Amiga I was wondering if it was technically possible to emulate a NeXT on, say, a 3000 with an '040. Of course, there could always be computers-on-a-card but would it be possible, or legal, to port over the NeXT OS? I've also been wondering why the Amiga's resolution has been getting better through the years HORIZONTALLY but not vertically. Why must we have a max of 400 lines vertical resolution? Is this why SVGA (or even VGA) can't be emulated on an ATonce-type emulator? Or is it the color or both? Us Amiga owners have always had a card we can use against owners of other computers that they have invariably not had when all else failed: WE CAN EMULATE YOUR PC! Rasiel
dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) (04/09/91)
In article <50091@nigel.ee.udel.edu> PYC118@uriacc.uri.edu (Rasiel) writes: > >I've also been wondering why the Amiga's resolution has been getting better >through the years HORIZONTALLY but not vertically. Why must we have a max of >400 lines vertical resolution? Is this why SVGA (or even VGA) can't be emulated >on an ATonce-type emulator? Or is it the color or both? > >Rasiel I talked extensively with some German reps about the ATonce. First I asked him if a 386 is possible. He said no because it would cost too much, and their goal was to produce a cheap 286 emulator. He also said that the ATonce drove down the Bridgeboard prices. I also asked him to run some programs, and he ran DBase, Lotus, Word Perfect, and AutoCad. He showed me the high res mode, which was pretty good except for the gentle flicker. I then asked him if a VGA upograde would be a hardware addition or modification to the ATonce/Amiga, or if it would be software. He said it would be a software upgrade, and that VGA will be available soon. -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN Tomas Arce Any students from SUNY Oswego? Please let me know! :) Un ragazzo di Casal Bordino, Italia.