>> So that does not mean that one should get something that is NOT an amiga (from the hardware perspective). You need to convince some of your hardware pals to build you a REAL amiga. As an example, try putting an instruction like $009C,$8010 into the copper list and write an interrupt routine (pointed to by location $68) that does something time critical like writing to joystick ports and there your emulator won't work. The PC timer goes only as accurate as 1.19318Mhz whereas the copper is timing the color clocks at 3.57954525Mhz.
>Sorry, but your paragraph makes no sense.
You forget to end that line with "to me" as you cannot speak for everyone.
>Of course an Emulator would fully support the Amiga interrupts and memory address space... and I think you'll find far more accurate and fine grained timers on a modern PC than on an Amiga... A typical OS quantum on a PC would be 1000 times every second... on the Amiga it was 12 times...
I don't. I have the latest PC at 2.8Ghz, it has two timers at 1.19318Mhz and 4096Hz (RTC timer). Why use terms like "would"? Why don't you try it out and speak with knowledge rather than guess and assume. Even if I ASSUME there's some timer at a higher rate, what would be the quantum of the timer after ONE interrupt occurs which does an EOI (Mov AL,20h followed by OUT 20H,AL)?
>Get over it the Amiga is old!!
Sure, it's old but it still contains unique features that modern hardware can't emulate.
>> Souls are only present in living entities-- anything subject to birth, death, old age, disease cannot be a soul.
>You don't know that. Since you can't define a Soul, my calculator might have one!
You should stop ASSUMING things. Speak from what you know and don't assume what other people know or don't know. I have experience that I am the same person but the body has changed and others report to me similar experience. I don't want to ASSUME calculator has a soul.
>>You are a soul that's why you know you are same person (unchanging identity) throughout your life although your body has changed from when you were a baby.
>Actually that's not true, your current stream of consciousness (i.e. your identity is only defined by your memories) may not even survive a night's sleep!!
Some people remember some things and forget other things but remain the same person. I know that I use my memory and am separate from my memory. There are NDE (near death experiences) of people going outside their body and giving accounts of what happens, astral projections, etc. etc. Perhaps, you need to contemplate that a bit more.
>There are plenty of studies in memory disorders to question the nature of consciousness... But this is not the place for that discussion...
Then you should never have replied as I was not discussing but giving my thoughts that someone asked for. Now that you have stated your ASSUMPTIONS, you are starting the discussion.
>Is MiniMig an Amiga?
If it does what the real Amiga hardware does, yes.
>You thoughts are odd and erratic!
Ahh, but I don't give a crap about what anyone ASSUMES or THINKs. I am interested in facts.
Why don't you try out the CIA interrupt on your real Amiga and fake amiga and see the difference? Try for example, divisor 11942 for CIA timer at 715909Hz and see the difference and then perhaps you can try out the tougher task of the Copper List based timer events which I was talking about.