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- From: jochenw@akela.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Jochen Wolters)
- Subject: ATARI Falcon, PC, Mac and all that jazz...
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- References: <1992Sep02.184109.8805@microsoft.com> <1992Sep3.040702.4617@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 11:50:01 GMT
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- jyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Young) writes:
-
- >MANY music people care because ST has worldclass MIDI software not
- >found on PC!
-
- Sorry, Jeff, but this doesn't hold true anymore. Major companies are porting
- their software from the Atari to the PC as well as to the Mac. Especially
- German developers like C-LAB (Notator, Creator, Notator Logic) or Steinberg
- (Cubase, Cubase Audio) follow the trend to serve all three platforms, although
- -at least up to now- the Mac still is a notch in front of the PC. We will see
- if this will change in the future...
- So, this argument is not important any more!
-
-
- >will have ability for PC/MAC emulation for very low price then many people
- >have mailed me (over 100) with interest.
-
- Why take a detour when all I want is a Mac? Or a PC, for that matter. This
- feature may be interesting for those who aready are using ATARI machines and
- are thinking of upgrading to the Falcon. For die-hard :-) Mac or PC fanatics
- those emulators you mention, don't have any convincing power.
- Although there's one interesting point about emulators: just look at those
- machines that emulate and those that are emulated. You'll immediately see
- a correlation between who's emulating who and which machine is important in
- terms of installed platforms. To prove my point: have you ever seen an
- AMIGA or ATARI ST emulator on a PC or a Mac? Nope, cause nobody's interested
- in them. Ever seen PC or Mac emulators on AMIGA or ST? Sure, lot's of em!
- Tell you something?! *grin* (Flames: klick-move-empty_trash :-))))))))))))
- BTW: I have to admit that there's a PC emulator for the Mac. But then again,
- I also said that this depends on how important the emulated machine is in
- terms of quantity, not quality :-)))))
-
-
- >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?
-
- Who cares as long as there's no program that is exclusive to the ATARI
- world? The main advantage of the #1 MIDI machine is obsolete. As long as
- you don't throw in the number of users who don't want to switch from the
- ATARI to some other machine for their sequencing and notationing needs...
-
-
- >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!!!!
-
- *sigh* Add a couple of SIMMs and a useful hard disk (> 200MB) and that price
- won't be too great after all...
-
- To end my 2 cents to this thread: The ATARI falcon may be interesting, but
- it is not that extra special for you to get on the nerves of us Mac users (and
- PC users as well :-))))) on a regular basis. If you, Jeff, still have the need
- to convince folks of the superiority of that machine, please do us the favor
- of taking this thread to an ATARI-only newsgroup.
-
- Be seeing ya,
- Jochen.
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- Jochen Wolters | jochenw@POOL.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
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