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Article #26342Re: emulate an st on the amiga!?!? ha!
From: yuan
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1987 10:33
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1987 10:33
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In article <870415022444.002507@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA>, Peck@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA (Rodney) writes:
>
> Regarding a recent posting that the atari can't emulate an amiga since
> it doesn't have the hardware, but the amiga can emulate an atari since
> they both use 68000's, ha.
> Neither can emulate the other for the first reason you mentioned. The
> atari has the midi ports, and the amiga just doesn't have them.
True that a "Standard" Amiga doesn't have a MIDI port built-in. But
one can be easily added (either third party or home-brewed). A lot of Amiga
music programs already will support a MIDI port.
> Finally, I would say that reading the disks (or converting them) would
> be rather easy providing the controllers weren't too different. The
> specs for IBMpc style disks are widely available.
With a little programming, Amiga disk controller can be made to read
Atari ST disks. Going the other way will be a _bit_ more complicated.
> rodney
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Yuan Chang
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!sdcsvax!nosc!humu!uhccux!yuan From: yuan@uhccux.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: emulate an st on the amiga!?!? ha! Message-ID: <433@uhccux.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Apr-87 05:33:49 EST Article-I.D.: uhccux.433 Posted: Fri Apr 17 05:33:49 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Apr-87 05:27:33 EST References: <870415022444.002507@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA> Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu) Lines: 23 Summary: Why not?