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- From: patrick.hanevold@login.eunet.no (Patrick Hanevold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: A Real Amiga Emulator
- Date: 20 Apr 1996 04:19:41 GMT
- Organization: EUnet Norway
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- >How can you even think that you can compare a top-line amiga
- >(A4000/060 + gfx board + 32Mb) to a PC in the same price-range ???
- >(PPro/200 + VRam4Mb gfx + 32Mb)
-
- I didnt. :) The tread was about UAE on a pentium.
-
- >A P133 is several (200 or more) times faster then a A500 (68000/7Mhz)
- >_ALL_ Graphics cards for the pc have blitters built in, most sound cards are
- >just crushing the amiga sound chips. (32-channel 16-bit 44Khz mixing ?)
- >
- >If you want to say "PC's are not that good in emulating amiga's" you're 100%
- >right, but "A Pentium does not get close to a real Amiga" is ofcourse
- >bullshit.
- >(Pentium is a CPU, and i assume you meant to compare Amiga's with
- >Pentium-based PC's)
-
- Nope. A Pentium runing UAE with a Amiga. :)
-
- >But fact is that PC's are gaining more and more on amiga's. (Hell, even
- >lightwave was ported to the pc.) And it's a matter of time that PC's -will-
- >be able to emulate amiga.
- Todays "dead" Amigas, sure. But by then the Power Amiga's should be out.
-
- >(UAE on a Pentium Pro / 250Mhz, wich makes use of GUS and GFX-card extensions
- >must be enough to emulate a A1200) It's time you amiga dudes realize that.
- A *STOCK* A1200 *MABY*, but sure as hell not *AN* *REAL* Amiga.
-
- >But hey, most modern amiga's are capable of -emulating- an XT, or even a
- >80386 at reasonable speed. It's only logical that todays hardware can emulate
- >other hardware from the past. (Both amiga -> pc and pc -> amiga) But it's
- >essential to the amiga that AT will prevent the competition (Apple, Pc's,
- >whatever.) that they will emulate modern amiga's.
-
- >This is not a flame or something, it's not even a pc-commercial. I've had a
- >Amiga since the release of KS1.2 (Good ol' A500) and a A1200 and
- >A4000/40/20Mb after that. I programmed every bit of it, and it was
- >wonderful. I sold both last year to get myself a P133/32Mb. (No regrets
- >yet.)
-
- >Fact is: -PC operating systems suck.
- Agreed. Only usefull OS must be Linux i think.
-
- > -Amiga hardware sucks and amiga OS lacks things (But works great).
- Agreed.
-
- >It's a matter of opinion, and i chose for the speed. It's a free world. Chose
- >for yourself.
-
- OK. I choose a BeBox. :)
-
- Whops. That random tag now? That must mean something. :)
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- .... Amiga and official Be developer - Visual Technologies \\\///
- ...... I'll rather die than use a MS-DOS/Windows based machine. \X//
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