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- From: cs64wag@sdcc8.ucsd.edu (Jeremy Friesner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: what's a good Amiga emulator for PC?
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 01:50:32 GMT
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- In article <19832@mindlink.bc.ca> Tom_Gowdyk@mindlink.bc.ca (Tom Gowdyk) writes:
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- >The Amiga has a 68000 based chip with several custom chips to handle
- >graphics, sound memory etc. There's no way to make the intel chip emulate a
- >68000.
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- Actually, emulating the 68000 wouldn't be so hard as emulating
- the Amiga's custom graphics chipset... imagine trying to do
- a copperlist or screen sliding on a VGA board!
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- >Mac might have a chance to do it through a hardware add on in some fashion,
- >but I don't think it will ever be done.
-
- Neither do I.
-
- >Sorry.
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- Well, I'm not *that* sorry... ;-)
-
- Jeremy
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