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| 969.1 | or the other way round | BERN01::RUGGIERO | Markus Ruggiero, EIS/PS, Z�rich/Switzerland | Fri Sep 21 1990 02:10 | 10 |
| > Could someone clear up how the ST could run Amiga software.
Hey, wasn't that the other way round? I never heard of any program
that made the AtariST act like an Amiga but I know there is an
Atari-Emulator for the Amiga. There was an article about it 2 or 3
month ago in the German "STMagazin". They say it runs reasonably well.
---markus---
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| 969.2 | Yes it exists but.... | RDGENG::JYERKESS | SLS ? It's elementary Watson | Fri Sep 21 1990 09:17 | 8 |
| Hi,
I know that there is a program that does a bad job of emulating the
Amiga workbench, this requires the blitter chip that can be found on
STE's and MEGA's. The last time I heard of the program was about 4
years ago, so whether or not it has been improved since then is up to
question. Check PD library's for availability if your still interested.
Jeff.
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| 969.3 | Small Amiga? | EARRTH::POLLAN | | Mon Oct 01 1990 12:55 | 14 |
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Hi,
Thanx for the speedy replys on the subject.
.1 is correct that the Amiga emulator for the Atari is what i first
was talking about.
I am searching for the Amiga on the Atari.
It seems to me that the Amiga has much more support.
The graphics on its programs seem better.
Maybe we need Dave Small to do this in his spare time...
KP
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| 969.4 | I doubt it. | REFINE::POMEROY | | Tue Oct 02 1990 10:19 | 17 |
| Being the present owner of an Amiga and a past owner of an Atari, I
wish anyone who tries to make an Amiga emulator the greatest of luck.
The Amiga has numerous coprocessors that would almost have to be
emulated through hardware. Besides, it would be almost impossible to
make a single tasking machine emulate a multi-tasking one. The Atari
wasn't built for it. Not to mention that Atari's raw speed and graphics
power just couldn't compare with what the amiga does. At best a suped
up atari could be fitted with a hardware board and possibly emulate a
low end amiga. I believe one company tried to make an amiga emulator
for the mac or something like that and they were going to use a
dedicated 68000 to emulate each of the coprocessors. This is not meant
as a flame against atari. I liked my atari. Emulating a multi-tasking,
multi-processor machine just isn't easy to do.
Bob Pomeroy
Refine::Pomeroy
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| 969.5 | Multiprocessing has very little to do with hardware | PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ | Jeffrey A. Lomicka | Tue Oct 02 1990 16:15 | 5 |
| Actually, emulating the multi-tasking nature of the machine would be
trivial. It's the graphics hardware that would stop you. Multi-tasking
is just a small matter of software - the Amiga DOS will do that no mater
what 68000 you run it on. The coprocessor graphics and memory
management features of the amiga would require a hardware add-on.
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| 969.6 | | BAGELS::BRANNON | Dave Brannon | Tue Oct 02 1990 17:32 | 14 |
| re:.5 hardware isn't needed, it could be done in software, but
that would slow it down quite a bit. After all, there are software
ibmpc emulators that emulate even the behavior of the com port
chip.
It's the classic question of how deeply do you need to emulate to
get the level of compatibility needed. Then comes the question
of how to make it fast enough to be reasonable on a 68000. The
speed and compatibility issues are when the hardware solution starts
looking a lot better. Then somebody offers to sell you a used
system real cheap :-) poof goes the idea of spending a lot of time
on a hack.
Dave
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