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Article #2379

Re: PC-Speed

#2379
From: Mike Shulman
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1989 16:34
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In article <221@nikhefh.hep.nl> l86@nikhefh.hep.nl (Hugo Burm) writes:
  
  
>I tested PC-Speed at a local Atari dealer. It works! And fast! All the 
[....]
>It emulates CGA and Hercules. (the latter with some horizontal
>scrolling). The magazines tested some major MS-DOS software, it
>all ran immediately. They had some problems with copy-protected games
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>(as expected) and non-Atari hard disk drivers (they are working on the
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>latter).

Why is it expected that the emulator should have problems with
copy-protected games? I would think that if you can read an IBM
disk correctly, the program should run... By the way, can you
hook up a 5 1/4 drive to PC-Speed?

			 Mike
  

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From: mikes@pedsga.UUCP (Mike Shulman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PC-Speed
Message-ID: <930@pedsga.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 89 16:34:04 GMT
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Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp., Tinton Falls, N.J.
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