dsherif@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Darin D Sheriff) (02/15/91)
> I always thought that it was because the Amiga chip set would be harder >to emulate safely on any 68000 based machine. I am sure it could be done, >but it would run the software pretty slowly. > > Second, why would a person who has an Amiga with a mac emulator want >to move to a Mac? Someone is reported to have done just that. Why? Another unexplained mystery to contemplate. :) > >P.S. :) Sometimes you have to just admit that you don't have to spend > $800 for a word processor... :) > > -- Darin Sheriff; Amiga 1000 owner. dsherif@csserv2.ic.sunysb.edu A computer: A machine that enables one to make twice as many mistakes in half the time. --unknown-- Disclaimer: It wasn't me. It was Chucky. He did it.
torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) (02/15/91)
dsherif@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Darin D Sheriff) writes: >> >> Second, why would a person who has an Amiga with a mac emulator want >>to move to a Mac? > Someone is reported to have done just that. Why? Another unexplained >mystery to contemplate. :) Here's the guy... Maybe you could get an answer from him >| I must show my disgust in that copies of "pirate" Macintosh ROMs do >| exist (as do pirate copies of the AMAX-II software) in the Amiga >| community and all over AMIGA bulletin boards across the nation, and >| due to the method in which the AMAX software indeed "reads ROMs into >| RAM," users are provided with an often seemingly "fully-functional" >| Macintosh. > >Well, at least one positive to this very true observation. It was the showing >of the AMAX Mac emulator (software version) on my Amiga 500 that prompted me >to sell my Amiga 500 and buy a Macintosh. > >My Amiga friend really regrets ever showing it to me now :) >---- ---- >ProLine: mmcnew@pro-odyssey Monty S. McNew >Internet: mmcnew@pro-odyssey.cts.com @ Pro-Odyssey >UUCP: crash!pro-odyssey!mmcnew 707/437-4734 >ARPA: crash!pro-odyssey!mmcnew@nosc.mil Fairfield, CA >Disclaimer: Odyssey's sysop disavows any knowledge of my signature file. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu "I didn't get where I am today without knowing a good deal when I see one, Reggie." "Yes, C.J."