AmigaActive (2311/2347)

From:Don Cox
Date:31 Mar 2001 at 12:08:51
Subject:Re: UAE Native???

On 30-Mar-01, Dauber wrote:
> --- Robert Cranley <daedalus@redbrick.dcu.ie> wrote:
>> Anyone know if an Amiga emulator has been seen that runs
>> "transparently", the way Shapeshifter and Fusion work, so there'd be
>> no
>> slowdown?
>
> When you're emulating different hardware, there's no way to avoid
> slowdown unless the hardware you're emulating is slow and the computer
> on which you're emulating it is very, very fast.
>
> The reason Shapshifter and Fusion don't produce reasonable slowdown
> [except on MY computer!!!] is that non-PPC Macs use the same CPU as
> non-PPC Amigas.

And the Mac has no special graphics chips to emulate.

But I'm surprised that nobody managed an Atari ST emulator to run on an
Amiga, for CuBase etc.

Regards



Don Cox
doncox@enterprise.net

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