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- From: ahcson@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (That Tree Piggy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: Amiga emulator
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 03:52:54 -0600
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
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- In article <DMEDHx.C2J@iglou.com>,
- Steve L. Edford <sledford@iglou.iglou.com> wrote:
-
- >This would seem like an odd thing for them to do. The Amiga is based on
- >the 680x0 Motorola just like the Mac. So, in this case they need to
- >convert 68K code to 80x86 code, then back to 68K code. I would think they
- >would have a better chance at starting from scratch.
-
- From what I understand, the emulator is portable to any
- Unix type platform with X. This suggests that it is written
- in C so should be portable to many platforms (or do you think
- Sun SparcStations mentioned before runs on an Intel 80x86?)
-
-
- >On the other hand though, I'm still not convinced that UAE "truely"
- >emulates the Amiga. Can it display a 320x200 4 color non-interlaced
- >screen slid halfway down, but in front of a partially visible 640x400 16
- >color interlaced screen? If so, can these screens be dragged up and down?
-
- Someone who has actually used the emulator (wow what a concept -
- using a product before commenting on it!!) stated that it does
- handle multiple screens.
-
- >I also wonder what key on the PC keyboard they chose to emulate the
- >"Amiga" key (equivalent of "Command" key on the Mac)?
-
- Key remaping is trivial
-
- > I'd still be
- >willing to bet it is only a partial emulation that has to be run on one
- >of the fastest PCs or at least a Sun workstation in a semi-functional manner.
-
- This is a silly thing to say. If it handles all the jobs required
- of the hardware, what makes it partial emulation just because
- it requires a fast processor (keep in mind that it is emulating
- a 68000 plus 3 specialized processors)? It's just as goofy to say
- that PC-Task is a only a partial emulation because it needs
- a fast Amiga for it to be useful.
-
- >Yeah, I know, they'll all come gunning for this response now. :^) Listen,
- >I can hear their keyboards heading this way now. There's one thing I've
- >learned in life; that is just because someone (or several) says that
- >such-and-such is true, doesn't make it so. Remember when everyone told
- >Colombus the world was flat? Or when they told Galileo the Sun & Universe
- >orbited the Earth? ;^)
-
- To paraphrase your analogy, remember when Columbus came back
- and told people that the world was round and some people didn't
- believe him or when Copernicus sided with Galileo and people
- didn't believe him?
-
- --
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