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- From: jyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Young)
- Subject: Re: Gemulator (Falcon emulator?)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.044657.442@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account)
- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <F5JFPB2w164w@tcpbbs.pcn.org> <1992Aug14.163225.2234@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 04:46:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug14.163225.2234@microsoft.com> darekm@microsoft.com (Darek Mihocka) writes:
- >
- >Gemulator has also been reduced in size and sped up by between 10% and 40%
- >since last shown at the Indianapolis show last month. It can now run on
- >a 6 meg PC (instead of an 8 meg PC) directly, or on a 4 meg PC when you use
- >virtual memory. Virtual memory slows down the program somewhat, but there is
- >simply no way to cram DOS, device drivers, the Gemulator code, 256K of TOS
- >ROM code, and 2 meg of Atari ST memory into a 4 meg PC. You need 6 meg. And
- >yes, it will run on a 386SX all the way up to a 486/50. On a 486/33 it's
- >running slightly faster than a 8 Mhz ST, on a 486/50 it runs almost as fast
- >as a 16 Mhz ST, and on a 386/33 it runs at half the speed of an ST.
-
- 486/33 only running at speed of 8 MHZ ST?!! Some people said it was
- supposing to run 2-3 TIMES faster! WHAT happened?? People said
- Gemulator demo running run from 100% RAMDISK too and it is fooling
- everyone because real ST DMA is 2-3 TIMES faster than PC hard disk!!
- What MIDI programs running now? Adlib is bankrupt and Soundblaster
- has very very terrible MIDI port and sound. Turtle Beach board
- for PC has DSP 56001 like in Atari Falcon but price is $800!!!!
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- Delphi report said Falcon is selling NEXT WEEK so Gemulator MUST
- faster than 68030 16 MHZ, DSP 56001. Also PC needs 8 channel
- 16 bit stereo too! Falcon already using local bus and very
- fast SCSI 2 so maybe 486/200 is needed???.
-
- Someone will please post benchmarks of Gemulator and Falcon?
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