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- From: Jonathan Waland <walaj@abstruse.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.tech
- Subject: Re: Why Amiga sucks and why it does't
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- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 96 12:04:28 GMT
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- Greg Thomson (kbull@garlic.com) wrote:
- :
- [snip]
-
- :
- : What needs to be done is an Amiga emulator for the PC's. Easy to say,
- : and probably not that hard to make. AGA is not that complicated
- : from what I heard.
- :
- :
- : KBull
-
-
- ask this one in comp.sys.amiga.emulations, and see what sort of reply
- you get ;-)
-
- (This question gets asked all the time, and the concensus is that it MIGHT
- be possible to run a WORKBENCH friendly prog by intercepting the
- system calls. BUT it would be near impossible to run any software
- that even remotely hits the hardware, due to hardware limitations on
- todays PC's.)
-
- jon
-