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- From: Jean-Francois Fabre <fabre>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: AGAEmul
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 08:53:29 GMT
- Organization: Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches de Toulouse/DERI
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- gcox@cts.com (Greg Cox) wrote:
- >Has anyone seen or used that AGA Emulator program on Aminet. I've heard
- >talk along time ago about an AGA Emulator and heard that it's bogus or
- >doesn't work. Is this that same program that's bben floating 'bout now
- >for sometime and has finally somehow made it's way to Aminet ? I am very
- >hesitant on using or trying it.
- >
- (I think) that it's a joke (1st of April). It's not really funny. Read the docs
- and you'll understand that.
- As I'm a bit dumb, I tested it. It displays lots of figures and calculates
- a checksum from nowhere, but it does not alter anything.
- If I were Urban Weller, I'd delete this archive which takes 512Kb size and
- is strictly useless.
-
- If this is a serious program, I apologize but I have serious doubts about it
- since to emulate AGA (256 colors) you need to create a dynamic palette, scan
- 8 planes and display only 5, which means intercepting all the writes to
- custom chips, colormap, while the author does not even talk about MMU, or write
- a real documentation.
-
- Now, I'm convinced it's a bad joke for naive PC users
-
- Jeff
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