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- AMIGA_EM.DOC Philip I. Nelson 1987
-
- As you've no doubt guessed, AMIGA_EM.PRG is a joke, not a serious
- attempt to emulate an Amiga on the Atari ST. On the plus side,
- AMIGA_EM.PRG is a free program; you may give a copy to anyone,
- provided that you don't change the program in any way.
-
- AMIGA_EM.PRG is written in assembly language and it includes
- several actual Amiga screens. To save space, the screens are
- stored in compressed format and uncompressed as needed. Needless
- to say, this is not a well-behaved GEM application; you can't use
- desk accessories, dump the screen with Alt-Help, or behave in
- other un-Amigalike ways.
-
- You must run AMIGA_EM.PRG in medium resolution on a color
- monitor.
-
- After a brief sojourn in the startup screen (click in the
- Emulate box or press Return if you're in doubt about what to do),
- you arrive in the Workbench screen. You can move the Workbench
- window by clicking and dragging the drag bar at the top of the
- window. To exit the emulator and return to the ST desktop (at your
- peril, I might add), click in the close gadget in the upper left
- corner of the Workbench window.
-
- Like much commercial software, AMIGA_EM.PRG is not finished
- and it does not perform as advertised (or as hoped by the
- foolish). Only three of the tools shown in the Workbench window
- are functional. (The Trashcan does nothing. How many Amiga files
- do you need to discard, anyway? Think about it.)
-
- If you click on the Preferences tool, you flip to the
- Preferences screen, which looks impressive and may convince the
- ignorant among your onlookers that you really are running an
- Amiga. Sadly, nothing on this screen works except the Cancel box.
-
- In the Workbench window is an 'Atari ST Emulator' tool. Some
- of the results of using this tool will be familiar to ST
- programmers. Amiga programmers may recognize one or few details,
- too.
-
- If you click on the AmigaBASIC tool, you go, naturally
- enough, to the Microsoft AmigaBASIC screen. Conveniently, someone
- already has loaded a program (a purported ST emulator) into BASIC,
- typed the command 'run,' and positioned the cursor immediately
- after that command in the BASIC Output window. If you're not
- curious about this situation, you can click in the Output window's
- close gadget and return to the Workbench. To learn what it's like
- to run an ST emulator from within an Amiga emulator, press the
- Return key. After that, you're on your own.
-