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- From: cpw8034@zeus.tamu.edu (ALAN CHIPIN WEN (409)693-2924)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga software emulator for PC?
- Message-ID: <29JUL199210115182@zeus.tamu.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 15:11:00 GMT
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- Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
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- >I hate to tell you this bud, but there is VERY LITTLE in this world that is
- >impossible. One of the things that makes the IBM Amiga emulator impossible is
- >that an IBM's Disk Controller cannot read and Amiga formatted disk, thus it
- >can't read a kickstart file off of one. There are ways around this of course,
- >but not in the fasion that the emulator claims to work.
- >
- >It is NOT, however, impossible to emulate the amiga custom chipset. Given a
-
- A friend has an IBM with an Amiga music module player that will READ amiga
- modules DIRECTLY OFF AN AMIGA DISK... (yes, our 880k variety and not a 720k
- crossdos-ed disk...)
-
- It seems that you think it's easier to emulate a set of custom chips for an
- Amiga emulator than to make something like Sybil (IBM flavor) that can read
- and write amiga floppies. okay...
-
- There's this other guy here at school that has a 486 with an Atari-ST emulator
- board inside. On it then, he has a Mac emulator on it... he now emulates a
- Mac by going inside the ST first. Sure, granted that he's at 33Mhz and the
- Mac emulator is slower than my 7Mhz Amax... BUT he can READ/WRITE Mac disks
- directly from his drives. (of course he can do this because the atari mac
- emulator can...)
-
- While I agree some projects are slightly on the impossible side, certain things
- are easier to xerox than others.
-
- alan
-