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- From: jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
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- Subject: Re: FAQ for Amiga emulators?
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 15:55:18 GMT
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- Ed Hanway (hanway@ekfido.kodak.com) wrote:
-
- : 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.
-
- That's perhaps a fair assessment in that "UAE runs at a significant
- performance hit to very very fast machines because it's doing some
- big-time processor-level emulation." To be fair to PC-Task, it is
- attempting to provide a higher level of compatibility with a higher level
- of PC than UAE's A500 emulation.
-
- : 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.
-
- Hey, I think it's great. In fact, I hope it gets ported to a PowerAmiga,
- since the benefits of having a true A500 emulation will become very clear
- once the PowerPC move breaks all sorts of software.
-
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