Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!husc6!bbn!rochester!ur-tut!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!jac423 From: jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Julius A Cisek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Atari St ---> Amiga? Summary: Well isn't that nice! ST emulator is even less then rumour... Message-ID: <779@leah.Albany.Edu> Date: 11 May 88 17:33:46 GMT References: <31@csc.anu.oz> Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center Lines: 34 In article <31@csc.anu.oz>, cjs900@csc.anu.oz writes: > Is there any truth to the rumour that there is forthcoming > an Atari-St Emulator for the Amiga? This may be another in > the longish line of 'Emulator Rumours' - but i'd like to know > whether this has any substance. > > The idea is akin to putting a VW engine in a Porsche 8-D , > but i have seen some nice ST proggies that i would like to > run, (mostly games...) Well gee Chris. I'm glad you like some of those 'nice proggies' enough to be midly interested in the emulator. Of course an ST emulator is quite impossible, unless it will include much hardware. The ST clocks a little faster than the Amiga so it would probably be a lot slower. There used to be a rumour about an Amiga emulator for the ST! The program even existed, but it was just a joke. I'm not sure if you realize that your comment about the VW engine is not really that funny. See, the Atari ST is becoming a more and more popular computer every day. It has certainly outsold the Amiga. Nobody laughs at the IBM-PC although both the ST and Amiga are superior computers. Also, you may note that not all of the 'nice proggies' are games. The ST has better music programs and better word processing than the Amiga. Why is it that Amiga users get so pompous? I recall seeing a message on the Atari Co. BBS where a frustrated Amiga user had a lot to say to all the Atari ST users. It was really very silly, and only makes the Amiga users look bad. -- What about technology, computers, .------------------. J.A.Cisek nuclear fusion? I'm terrified of |Spectral Fantasies| jac423@leah.albany.edu radiation, I hate the television. `------------------' jac423@uacsc1.albany.edu