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- From: future@blarg.net (Tim Gerchmez)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Playing 64 games on IBM
- Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 05:37:39 GMT
- Organization: Blarg! Online Services - 206/441-9109
- Message-ID: <4hdvj5$6fm@guysmiley.blarg.net>
- References: <1996Feb28.164537.2815@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> <8BBF2E4.00770000FB.uuout@venture.fipnet.fi> <4hbbs2$bl4@reader2.ix.netcom.com>
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- On 3 Mar 1996 05:48:50 GMT, wnipper@ix.netcom.com(Ken Nipper) wrote:
-
- >In <8BBF2E4.00770000FB.uuout@venture.fipnet.fi> pizza@venture.fipnet.fi
- >(PIZZA) writes:
- >>
- >>-> I would like to know if anyone knows of an emulator which can be
- >run on the
- >>-> IBM PCs which will allow me to access my commodore 64 software?
- >>
- >>There are two of them, C64S and PC64. I prefer C64S.
- >>You need at least 486/66 to run the software at tolerable speed.
- >
- >and isn't that the kicker? you need a 66MHZ 32 bit INTEL to do the same
- >job as An 8bit 1MHZ motorola and a few tricky chips.
-
- Emulation of another CPU always takes considerable CPU power. It
- isn't only the CPU it's emulating either, it's the video chips, SID
- chip, and many others.
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