Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!wheels From: wheels@mks.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: IBM emulator Message-ID: <280@mks.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 09:35:43 EDT Article-I.D.: mks.280 Posted: Thu Jul 9 09:35:43 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 08:59:12 EDT References: <678@hhb.UUCP> Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont. Lines: 26 Summary: good reviews on CompuServe In article <678@hhb.UUCP>, rob@hhb.UUCP (Robert R Stegmann) writes: > I just read in the August issue of Compute! magazine about an IBM PC > emulator (in software) for the ST. It is called "pc-ditto". > Can anybody out there who has any experience with this product or company > comment? Does this emulator run at speed, or is it slow? > Is it real or vapor-ware? I haven't used it, although I briefly saw it running at the local dealer. There is much discussion about it on CompuServe, with the concensus being that it does indeed run almost everything. Its speed depends on the type of program being run, but seems to range from 50% to 80% of a plain PC. Some programs suffer from slowness (interpreted BASIC, action games, etc.), but users report running the usual applications, including communications programs. There was some discussion that the author was going to halt production after only one month, due to large-scale pirating, but the latest posting says that he has decided to continue as long as sales remain good. Hey, I don't know anywhere else to get an IBM PC for under $100! Now you can buy an Atari ST and have an ST, a MAC, and an IBM! :-) -- "Network XXIII. Where two's company, and three's an audience." -- Max Headroom Gerry Wheeler {seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!watmath!mks!wheels Mortice Kern Systems Inc.