Author: Fat Rakoon (host213-1-112-238.btinternet.com)
Date: 12-05-2001 01:12
I can see where this is getting... Nowhere?
You say the clones are antiquated, but let me put it this way...
I currently own a Milan, I have owned an Eagle, now the eagle was the first ever clone, but have you actually seen one of them run?
My eagle was only 33Mhz, but it ran many times faster than my friends Pentium 166, so fast in fact, that we ran windows 3.1 under emulation, and we were able to play videos better than the pentium could.
this is 33mhz, so have you actually bothered to look at what more recent clones can do?
Seriously, what the hell can you do under emulation that is better than the real thing?
Yes, its faster, thats acceptable ( nowhere near as fast as the coldfire/XTos machines though, unless the new as yet unreleased AMD/P5s come out, but then where is emulation? all we are still getting is a very fast ST, the ST is crap compared to what the newer machines ( anything other than an ST ) are, so, emulation is still at the starting block, but getting nowhere, although admittedly, its getting nowhere very very fast.
Please look at the facts, you are comparing fairly recent PC hardware to very old Atari clone hardware, medusa for shits sake! - try comparing the medusa with PC hardware of the day, you will find that the PC hardware was nothign short of utter wank in comparison, same was with the Falcon too, its not quite the same with very new clones, but seriously consider it, EMualtion still only does a bloody ST, now forget about speed for just one minute, and honestly tell me what an emulator can do, that real hardware cannot.
I will give you an example.
I will stick to just my current TT, not the Milan, now please tell me what you can do with your 1.2Ghz PC and Emulator, that I could not on the TT.
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