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- Path: dee.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de!solar
- From: solar@dee.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (Solar)
- Subject: There is *NO* Amiga Emulation!
- Sender: news@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (News Administrator)
- Message-ID: <DMEn9F.I1A@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>
- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 12:12:50 GMT
- Nntp-Posting-Host: dee.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de
- Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Rechenzentrum
-
- Hey guys, I get fed up reading about UAE.
- It is *NO* Amiga Emulation, for Christ sake!
- Read your own mails, UAE-freaks: On a SPARC station, UAE
- runs at *80%* of an (MC68000/7 MHz) A500.
- That means, on a powerplattform like the SPARC, you are
- still not able to emulate 7 MHz 68000 coding.
- Yes, demos run. Yes, you can copy AmigaFS to MS-DOS
- diskettes.
- No, it is not an emulation.
-
- What I call an Emulation is something that does not only
- emulate the OS and enables sofware to run. Something can
- be called an Emulator that can copy the *speed* of a system,
- too. Yes, now you will say "wait until the P6 (or whatever)
- CPU with xxx MHz, then wel will emulate 100% of an A500".
- This is NUTS. Less than 5% of the original CPU power is
- left while doing the emulation (P133 vs. 7 MHz 68000).
-
- Look at Shapeshifter, which is sometimes even *FASTER*
- than a Mac with the same CPU. Look at PC Task, which keeps -
- how much? - say 20% of the CPU power.
-
- THAT are emulators. UAE is a project. A nice one, granted,
- but not any serious emulating software. What do you want
- to do with UAE? "Gee, look, I can emulate an Amiga." Clicking
- around on the workbench a bit and then kicking the software
- out to return to DOS.
-
- The Amiga can emulate the Mac and run the software at satis-
- fying speeds. With a bridgeboard it can run PC software at
- satisfying speeds. It can emulate an Atari, a C64...
-
- I still see no way a PC will ever be able to emulate an Amiga
- *AT SATISFYING SPEEDS*.
-
- Heck, surely any computer can "emulate" anything on the market.
- My old C64 can emulate an Amiga. But not at any speed worth
- buying the software.
-
- Get lost.
- --
- Martin Baute
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- \\ // Commodore is dead - long live the Amiga!
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- Amiga is back to show how it is done - See: http://www.amiga.de/
-
-
- IMPORTANT: I am sorry if I hurt anybodys feelings. But I cannot stand
- those PC-users hopping around and boasting themselves with an emulation
- with an efficiency of less than 5%...
-
- Come back when you have an emulation for a MC68030/50 MHz Amiga. Then
- we talk buisness.
-