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- From: darekm@microsoft.com (Darek Mihocka)
- Subject: Atari Falcons $799... WHO CARES! Just emulate it.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep02.184109.8805@microsoft.com>
- Date: 02 Sep 92 18:41:09 GMT
- Organization: BraSoft
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- The $799 Falcon, who cares! Atari has a long history of announcing vaporware
- and then either never releasing the product, releasing it in extremely
- small quantities (to be able to claim that they shipped it), or they ship
- it either severly crippled or at a much higher price.
-
- Their most recent blunders include the Atari TT (the crippled 68030 machine
- that barely outperforms a 16 Mhz 68000), the ST Book (the notebook that never
- was), and the "under $1000 68030 machine" Falcon. Notice that the $799 price
- is for a 1 meg machine with no hard disk. Gee, that's a throwback to the
- 1986 days of the 1040ST! If you want a useful computer with 4 meg, a hard disk
- and a nice monitor, well, Atari says you'll have to fork over much MORE than
- the $1000. You can't even use Atari's laser printer with 1 meg machines.
-
- So, once again Atari has shot themselves in the foot by releasing an overpriced
- piece of technology that's already obsolete because they took so long to
- release it.
-
- All this vapor and failing to ship a product gave me a nice idea for a program.
- In a few days I'll be release a shareware program called Gemulator. It's
- a 68000 emulator that runs on MS-DOS, and with the appropriate Atari ROM
- chips plugged into your PC, it emulates an Atari ST. Give me a few months to
- add 68030 emulation and you'll have yourself a Falcon emulator. Don't waste
- your money on the real thing and hell, why even lose sleep over it. Chances are
- slim that you'll see Falcons flooding dealer shelves any time soon.
-
- Check Compuserve and GEnie in a few days for the Gemulator file.
-
- - Darek
-
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- | Darek Mihocka, BraSoft, 14150 NE 20th St., Unit 302, Bellevue, WA 98007. |
- | Creator of Gemulator, Quick ST, and Xformer. Views expressed are my own. |
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