Subject: RE: There ARE alternatives for Atari clones
Author: Alex F. (dialup-62.67.78.102.frankfurt1.eu.level3.net)
Date: 11-20-2001 13:15
Hi Flash,
I'm sorry to say that but Your statements prove that You
do not have much knowledge about technical details.
Also as You seem to ignore that a MagicMac-Mac simply
is no Atari.
If You use a Mac You can as well use MacOS.
Every emulation loses the typical arguments for
using an Atari.
OK then, what is an Atari then?
-An Atari has a ROM-OS. It seems many people don't
understand how important this feature is and was.
-An Atari has a MIDI-port. A big part of the users
are musicians!
-An Atari is an Atari. Sounds strang but the fact is that
if You start using a Mac with emulation You will
most crtainly someday try Mac-Progs as well.
You will then see that the Mac-proggies are much
better on the Mac than the emulated Atari-progs.
Someday You will change to the Mac.
That's how it is :-(
And who says we need an 68k??
The 68k is dead.
Long live the ColdFire.
This chip needs no general eulation coz it uses
the sameinstruction-set and is the official 68k-follow-up.
Only few instructions which are not presenton this chip
must be a kind of emulated.
(The PC jumps over an exception for working with the
68k-instruction)
But when a ColdFire-Atari would sell good enough,
there would be enough progams who avoid these instrutions.
It shall be kept in mind that the forthcoming
ColdFire 4e can cope with a Pentium III.
And TOS/MagiC/MinT is faster than Winux.
I think it's strange that in this forum everyone
talks about clones and ppc but the coldfire or
xtos are not even mentioned.
All other people I have talked to seem to favourize
a ColdFire machine. Besides, a PCC-Atari which would
certainly not sell more than 2000 times would be
far too expensive!
The Coldfire-chip is really extremely cheap!
I use MagiCMac, too, on a Powerbook with 33 MHz 68030.
Pretty fast, but no Atari :-(
You can always feel that You always run only an
application which allows using Atari-progs.
Till now I have got some Mac-Apps. Much better than
emulated Atari-Apps.
So, I want a real Atari.
