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Ok, i'll admit it i fell for it.  i really thought someone, took
the time to write something that tried to emulate the Amiga in
a semi-respectable fashion.  BOY WAS I WRONG!  For those of you
who are interested in getting this thing, don't.  Here's why...

---begin AMIGA_EM.DOC---

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.
---end AMIGA_EM.DOC---

i guess i should have know that no one would really try to emulate
the Amiga anyway.  well, we (the ST) could not offer ANY multi-tasking
support now could we?  nor, could we support some of their custom
sound (or could we? midi?).  oh well, i suppose i only wanted an
Amiga-like environment.

Now, i have to go tell the guy that wanted it, that it was just a
farce.  JOY!

-chip
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