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- In article <4gok93$9gb@cloner2.ix.netcom.com>, stufried@ix.netcom.com
- (Stuart Friedman ) wrote:
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- > In <4ge30o$k3v@flood.xnet.com> jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
- > writes:
- > >
- > >Four generations of Macintosh emulation on the Amiga have gone by
- > >unchallenged. The biggest ligitation threats came from one emulation
- > >firm who claimed that two others stole from him.
- >
- > Sorry, I am not an Amiga user and don't know much about these programs.
- > Are they software only or did they use Mac Roms. Also what processor
- > drives an Amiga? I am not a programmer, but know from past posts that
- > emulating a Mac on a big endian processor is a simpler job than
- > emulating it on a little endian processor. If I recall correctly, the
- > Amiga is also a 6800 based processor. If that is the case I think that
- > all you need to do is write the glue to load the OS.
- >
- > Stu
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- Exactly right; all the Amiga mac emulators had to do was emulate the ROMs
- and hold everything together - it's exactly the same processor.
-
- Getting it to run on a PC is a completely different story.
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-
- But that has nothing to do with the previous post, which was talking about
- copyright issues. :-/
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