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- From: rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu (Robert Fentiman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: UAE on amigas for running games under OS?
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 19:05:02 GMT
- Organization: University of Minnesota
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- On 17 Apr 1996 12:13:37 GMT Alan L.M. Buxey (kcci1@central.susx.ac.uk) wrote:
- :Mike Redrobe posted the following:
- :: This would make many demos/old games run under multitasking.
-
- :UAE cant handle hardware hitting games and demos.
-
- Um, yes it can. That's the whole point of it. It emulates the hardware
- with software. The result is you get a slower-than-a-500 amiga even on fast
- machines. But it's still quite impressive what the authors have done,
- even though it only does OCS/68K emulation right now.
-
- Granted, there are some demos/games that won't work, but that's the way
- it is with real Amigas anyways. Many of them do work (and it comes with
- a Eurodemo to try out).
-
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