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AMIGA_EM.DOC Philip I. Nelson 1987
As you've no doubt guessed, AMIGA_EM.PRG is a joke, not a serious
attempt to emulate an Amiga on the Atari ST. On the plus side,
AMIGA_EM.PRG is a free program; you may give a copy to anyone,
provided that you don't change the program in any way.
AMIGA_EM.PRG is written in assembly language and it includes
several actual Amiga screens. To save space, the screens are
stored in compressed format and uncompressed as needed. Needless
to say, this is not a well-behaved GEM application; you can't use
desk accessories, dump the screen with Alt-Help, or behave in
other un-Amigalike ways.
You must run AMIGA_EM.PRG in medium resolution on a color
monitor.
After a brief sojourn in the startup screen (click in the
Emulate box or press Return if you're in doubt about what to do),
you arrive in the Workbench screen. You can move the Workbench
window by clicking and dragging the drag bar at the top of the
window. To exit the emulator and return to the ST desktop (at your
peril, I might add), click in the close gadget in the upper left
corner of the Workbench window.
Like much commercial software, AMIGA_EM.PRG is not finished
and it does not perform as advertised (or as hoped by the
foolish). Only three of the tools shown in the Workbench window
are functional. (The Trashcan does nothing. How many Amiga files
do you need to discard, anyway? Think about it.)
If you click on the Preferences tool, you flip to the
Preferences screen, which looks impressive and may convince the
ignorant among your onlookers that you really are running an
Amiga. Sadly, nothing on this screen works except the Cancel box.
In the Workbench window is an 'Atari ST Emulator' tool. Some
of the results of using this tool will be familiar to ST
programmers. Amiga programmers may recognize one or few details,
too.
If you click on the AmigaBASIC tool, you go, naturally
enough, to the Microsoft AmigaBASIC screen. Conveniently, someone
already has loaded a program (a purported ST emulator) into BASIC,
typed the command 'run,' and positioned the cursor immediately
after that command in the BASIC Output window. If you're not
curious about this situation, you can click in the Output window's
close gadget and return to the Workbench. To learn what it's like
to run an ST emulator from within an Amiga emulator, press the
Return key. After that, you're on your own.