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- From: jyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Young)
- Subject: Re: Atari Falcons $799... WHO CARES! Just try to emulate it.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.040702.4617@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <1992Sep02.184109.8805@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 04:07:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep02.184109.8805@microsoft.com> darekm@microsoft.com (Darek Mihocka) writes:
- >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.
-
- MANY music people care because ST has worldclass MIDI software not
- found on PC! Over 50000 people at German Atari show (one week ago)
- saw and TRIED OUT Falcon 030s. Since Falcons are compatible with
- great ST MIDI software and will have ability for PC/MAC emulation
- for very low price then many people have mailed me (over 100) with
- interest.
-
- >
- >All this vapor and failing to ship a product gave me a nice idea for a program.
-
-
- Yes many people notice Gemulator PRICE DROPS so fast after Falcons announced!!
- Confident claims about vapor not matched by confidence about Gemulator
- selling price.
-
- >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.
-
- OK some questions!
-
- a. If Gemulator emulates ST what percent of MIDI software works now?
- b. What PC MIDI boards working with Gemulator?
- c. What is speedup of ST software on popular 386 machine with 4 megabyte?
-
- >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.
-
- OK so you promise people can BUY Falcon emulator in few months. You
- have good warning about VAPORWARE so entire world can trust you will
- have Falcon emulator out in six months.
-
- Falcon has 16 mhz 68030, 32 mhz 56001 DSP, SCSI2, 8 channel 16 bit stereo
- DMA,... and $799 list price so your Falcon emulator will be great!!!!
-
- >
- >Check Compuserve and GEnie in a few days for the Gemulator file.
- >
- >- Darek
-
- Please keep people informed about Falcon emulator too!
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