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- From: hanway@servtech.com (Ed Hanway)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: Amigaemu.zip
- Date: Sun, 04 Feb 96 19:38:47 GMT
- Organization: My Workstation
- Message-ID: <4f324p$s6t@murphy.servtech.com>
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- In article <4ev3d0$neu@northshore.shore.net>,
- farren@shore.net (farren user) wrote:
- >hanway@ekfido.kodak.com (Ed Hanway) writes:
- >
- >>Even in its current state, UAE is more than adequate to disprove the old
- >>"you'll never emulate an Amiga" argument. Check out the UAE web page at
- >
- >Hardly. It disproves the "you'll never simulate an Amiga", but nobody with
- >any sense was arguing with that one.
-
- Perhaps, but it's still a widespread misconception, as recent posts here
- prove.
-
- >As soon as you show me a version of
- >uae that will run, say, all of the demos on Aminet, sound and graphics and
- >all, and in real time, then I'll believe that Amiga emulation is close.
- >That's far from the case right now.
-
- That's a standard that I doubt any software emulation of any computer has
- ever achieved. Even if there were a C64 emulation running on an SGI Onyx,
- there would probably be some obscure SID chip timing it couldn't duplicate
- that would break at least one piece of software.
-
- The bottom line is that an emulation is never going to be 100% complete, but
- that doesn't mean it can't be usable. That will be determined by when people
- actually use it, rather than by your arbitrary standard. For example, today
- UAE is not going to impress anyone with its speed when running games or demos,
- but if you needed to convert an old Final Copy document to PostScript, it
- should work fine, if slowly.
-
-
- Ed Hanway <hanway@servtech.com>
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