From: ortmann@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Mathias Ortmann)
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Subject: Re: CLOANTO announces official Amiga emulator?
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 13:14:29 GMT
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nomad@joshua-wopr.com (Nomad of Norad (David C. Hall)) wrote:

>> As I understand it, it will be as good as the current amiga
>> emulators (UAE and Fellow) because, it *will* be the current amiga
>> emulators (UAE and Fellow will be on the CD). Fellow only works on
>> x86s as far as I know, but UAE (originally developed under Linux)
>> has been ported to Windows, Mac, Acorn/RISC and even the Amiga.
>                                                           ^^^^^^
>An Amiga emulator, running on an Amiga?????  Heh!  THAT'S nicely recursive!
>Can you run Amiga-UAE, ON Amiga-UAE, on an Amiga?  How many levels deep can
>this go?   :-)

Unlimited. If you have enough patience, that is.

>> Cloanto are not developing a new emulator. Just releasing a CD with
>> UAE and Fellow on it. The CD will also contain legal copies of
>> the kickstart roms (versions 1.0 through to 3.0) and copies
>> of various versions of WorkBench (anyone know which ones?)
>
>Nice!  How do they keep someone from copying off the ROM images and
>distributing them?

They can't. But they can prevent someone from using them on real Amigas.

>> It will also contain Cloanto's Personal Paint.
>>
>> What I would like to know is: What else will be on it?
>>
>> Anybody know?
>
>I wonder if there'll be any "Easter eggs" on the disc.

If we are lucky, there will.

-- 
Mathias Ortmann                            ortmann@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
UAE 0.6.9 Win32/DirectX @ http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~ortmann/uae/
