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- Organisation: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany
- Date: Thursday, 3 Sep 1992 20:59:39 MES
- From: Julian F. Reschke <RESCHKE@DMSWWU1A.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Message-ID: <92247.205939RESCHKE@DMSWWU1A.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.amiga
- Subject: Re: Atari Falcons $799... WHO CARES! Just emulate it.
- References: <1992Sep02.184109.8805@microsoft.com>
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- In article <1992Sep02.184109.8805@microsoft.com>, darekm@microsoft.com (Darek
- Mihocka) says:
- >
- >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.
-
- ST Books are shipping here in Germany (though expensive, I agree). The TT
- is much faster than a 68000 with 16 Mhz. Either you've never seen one, or
- you are lying (you have to launch applications in the TT-Ram, did you know
- that ??). You can't even connect the SLM lasers, because the ACSI port is
- gone. But you CAN connect any standard PC laser printer, so where's the
- problem?
-
- >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.
-
- Thhe machine was officially announced in August. The macchine seems to ship
- this month.
- >
- >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.
-
- It will be interesting to see how you'll emulate the DSP chip :-)
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- JULIAN F. RESCHKE, HENSENSTR. 142, D-W4400 MUENSTER
- EMAIL: JULIAN@MATH.UNI-MUENSTER.DE, JR@MS.MAUS.DE
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