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- From: ac803@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael W. Kelley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: c64 emulator
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 15:15:22 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: ac803@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael W. Kelley)
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- >
- >Seeing as the C-64 was just a game machine (essentially) isn't this
- >emulator sort of a WASTE?? The c-64 has quite good games, at that. In
- >fact, some things were better than IBM versions...like Strip Poker :) !
- >The C-64 is essentially 16-color lo-res EGA (as is my example). Why even
- >bother? Somebody mentioned an Amiga emulator for the IBM before? I
- >can just imagine what this is like.......BLAH!!!
- >-Doc
- That's like me saying the AMIGA is ONLY a video and animation machine.
- BOTH are COMUTERS, and do what they do quite well. Each user has their own
- needs and price range, and each COMPUTER fills those needs and price
- availability. A C64 can do everything an MS-DOS mahine can, just
- in more step, and more disk accesses. Coleco and Nintendo are game
- machines, C64 is a COMPUTER!
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