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- From: hanway@ekfido.kodak.com (Ed Hanway)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: FAQ for Amiga emulators?
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 14:09:34 GMT
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- Mark P Allen (mpa@wvision.iig.com.au) wrote:
- : Under no circumstances should UAE be grouped with apps like PCTask and
- : ShapeShifter, since that was never the author's intention (except perhaps by
- : luck). Instead, enjoy it as the curiosity piece it is, and forget the rhetoric
- : regarding any possible usefulness.
-
- Actually, it seems like UAE runs most Amiga programs at least as well as
- E586 and PCTask run Windows programs. However, I'll have to admit that
- I'm only basing this on descriptions that I've read of E586 and PCTask.
-
- This alone does not make UAE "useful," since the standards of comparison
- are so low, but it is an emulation, and should rightly be grouped with and
- compared to other emulations. I think the reluctance by some people to admit
- that it works is based more on some kind of Amiga advocacy than an
- objective comparison of its capabilities. IIRC, similar attitudes were
- evident among Mac advocates when the first Mac emulators appeared.
-
- --
- Ed Hanway <hanway@ekfido.kodak.com>
- Eastman Kodak - Motion Picture & Television Imaging, Cineon Development
- Opinions expressed are my own, except the ones which aren't.
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