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Article #2468Re: PC-Speed
From: Neil Forsyth
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1989 08:00
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1989 08:00
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In article <930@pedsga.UUCP> mikes@pedsga.UUCP (Mike Shulman,SPCSYS,7586) writes: >In article <221@nikhefh.hep.nl> l86@nikhefh.hep.nl (Hugo Burm) writes: >>(with respect to emulators)They had some problems with copy-protected games >>(as expected) > >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... Not so. To both machines a sector is just a sector. But if you want to go looking between sectors or reading whole tracks you must access the floppy disk controller yourself. The ST of course doesn't have the same FDC as the PC and so a program gets stuck when it trys to use the non-existant hardware itself. The Spectre 128 Mac Emulator has the same problems. Any direct access to Appletalk/Modem hardware and there is a freeze up. With new hardware & software platforms coming out, most software developers will stop doing this (we hope). Wait and see how much naughty ST software works on TOS 1.4 or on a TT. >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Mike Shulman <Insert your favorite disclaimer here> >UUCP: princeton!rutgers!petsd!pedsga!mikes >Internet: mikes%pedsga.uucp@rutgers.edu +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise stated, the above comments are entirely my own ! ! ! ! Neil Forsyth JANET: neil@uk.ac.hw.cs ! ! Dept. of Computer Science ARPA: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk ! ! Heriot-Watt University UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!neil ! ! Edinburgh, Scotland, UK "spam spaM spAM sPAM SPAM, lovely SPAM" ! +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!hwcs!neil From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: PC-Speed Message-ID: <2826@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> Date: 18 Jul 89 08:00:49 GMT References: <221@nikhefh.hep.nl> <930@pedsga.UUCP> Reply-To: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland Lines: 36