home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu!sheldon
- From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
- Subject: Re: Amiga software emulator for PC?
- Message-ID: <sheldon.712261332@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu>
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <fQhF4vU@quack.sac.ca.us> <1992Jul24.125046.16117@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de> <mwm.1azz@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> <92209.143751PROHVK38@TREARN.BITNET>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:22:12 GMT
- Lines: 30
-
- In <92209.143751PROHVK38@TREARN.BITNET> Cem Turgay <PROHVK38@TREARN.BITNET> writes:
-
- >In <1992Jul24.125046.16117@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de>,
- >markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer) wrote:
- >> Anyway, the hardware of the Amiga can't be emulated by software.
-
- >mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer) saids;
- >> How about "Can't be legally emulated" or "Can't yet be emulated at
- >> reasonable speed". If you want to fund it, I'll write the emulator for
- >> you. Just don't expect to run as fast as say, PC-task on an A500.
-
- >May you can write it only in your dream. B-)
-
- >It is imposible my friend.
-
- Impossible? eh, nothing is impossible.
-
- I would say that it is perhaps not feasible. But it's not
- impossible. Nothing is impossible...
-
- >So, real system programmers never come with the project of Amiga
- >emulator, because they know software and hardware capable of PCs.
-
- I think it's more that it would be more work than it's worth.
-
- It'd kind of be like writing a program for the Amiga that emulated
- a TRS-80 Color Computer... one could do it, but who would want it,
- and be willing to pay for it?
-
-
-