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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
- 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
- Date: 25 Jan 96 13:54:23 +0000
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- Hi, Hans-Joerg Friedenn , on 24-Jan-96 11:28:58 you scribbled....
- >Greg Thomson (kbull@garlic.com) wrote:
- >: 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.
- >If that was even slightly correct, then why on earth didn't anyone do
- >such a thing? Guessed it? Don't tell me there's no interest, requests
- >like this keep popping up from time to time in Amiga groups, and even
- >more frequent in PC groups. I'd really like to see an AGA Emulation on a
- >vga chip where you switch resolution and color depth in mid-frame via the
- >copper, or a decent HAM8 emulation that is fast enough... Hell, even the
- >Pentium 100 I use at university has its problems with playing ham6 or
- >ham8 anims under BSDI-Unix... And this is High-End...
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- >Take my word for it: It is not possible to have a decent Amiga emulation
- >on any PC that is considered 'common' right now. At least not speed-wise,
- >and compatibility is even a bigger problem since no AGA specs where
- >published by C=...
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- There *is* an amiga emulator for PC's running Linux...but its *really* slow..
- so slow its called the "unuseable amiga emulator".
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- E.g. 1/10 A500 speed on a P133 updating every 3 frames...
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- >Regards, Hans-Joerg.
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- >--
- >Hans-Joerg Frieden Schloss-Strasse 176 54293 Trier Germany
- >Private Mail to hfrieden@fix.uni-trier.de
- >FTP-Admin Mail to ftpadmin@ftp.uni-trier.de
- >Any Opinion expressed is completely my own, not those of my employers.
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- Mike
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