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- From: "Naveen G. Rao" <ngr@cs.duke.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: kickstart 512k rom image
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 11:01:45 -1000
- Organization: Duke University
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- Nicholas Irving <u3nli@csc.liv.ac.uk> wrote:
- >In article <312914DE.27BE@cs.duke.edu> you wrote:
- >> I just wanted to know if there is anyone out there that can mail me
- >> the 512k amiga rom image. I am trying to run UAEv0.4 on my powermac
- >> but I need this image before I can actually do anything. Thanks.
- >
- >You lend me your PowerMac and I will then lend you my Amiga 500.
- >
- >I am sorry but that is the only way that yuou are going to get a ROM
- >from any of the Amiga community.
- >
- >Amigas are so scarce, you cannot just walk into a shop and download the ROM,
- >It is a shame that MAC's are the opposit, there seem to be everywhere, meaning
- >it is easy to download a ROM.
- >
- >Anyway, we can emulate a MAC that runs at the same performance level, however
- >the MAC cannot perform at the same level of the Amiga. I would like to thank
- >Jay Miner for producing the best machine in the world ever.
- >
- >The Amiga still lives on.
- >
- >Nick
- whoooooa! there! I didn't mean to offend you or any other amiga
- users. I just wanted to play around with some amiga stuff. If it
- really is a problem, I won't copy the rom. I actually do have an
- amiga, but the power supply is messed up and it won't work anymore.
- The amiga is a great computer, but due to bad marketing etc it no
- longer has any market share.
- The reason mac emulation is so good on an amiga is because there
- isn't all that much software left for the amiga so do some things
- that you might need to do, you have to emulate a mac. The mac
- emulation sucks, because 1) There is no great demand for it, 2) if
- it is run on a powermac, it has to be complete hardware as well as
- software emulation. Hell the damn power mac's can't even emulate a
- 68K mac as fast a real 68K mac! (especially low end PPC's).
- Oh, and one last thing--if it is not right to be copying the ROM's
- of an amiga, why is right (even though it is so easy) to copy the
- ROM's of a mac (or powermac)?
-
- later,
-
- --Naveen Rao http://www.duke.edu/~ngr
-