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Offline psxphill

Re: Amiga 500 MS-DOS Emulator by Commodore floppy?
« on: February 20, 2023, 02:51:40 PM »
1. Can anybody give my any more information about this disk? And possibly how to get it running?

It looks like a joke, commodore usually used disk labels.
 

Offline psxphill

Re: Amiga 500 MS-DOS Emulator by Commodore floppy?
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2023, 04:53:47 PM »
Doesn't the word 'usually' imply that they sometimes used unlabeled disks?

Anyway, I bought a Greaseweazle V4 and will attempt to rip the disk and run in it in an emulator.

It implies that I didn't personally witness every disk they ever shipped.

AFAICT they were still shipping Transformer by 1987

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1987/09/07/slow-selling-commodore-amiga-tries-for-better-ibm-compatibility/50a472dc-b99e-4aba-96d2-3d98c818acd3/
« Last Edit: February 22, 2023, 04:58:43 PM by psxphill »
 

Offline psxphill

Re: Amiga 500 MS-DOS Emulator by Commodore floppy?
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2023, 09:57:28 AM »
I used Transformer when I was in college in the fall of 1986. I used it to do my Turbo Pascal stuff, perhaps some C as well. It was slow as a dog but it got the job done.

At some point I want to take a look at transformer, and figure out how good their code is.
PC task, with it's dynamic recompiler, would leave it for dust. But that came around when people had far more ram.

While transformer seems to only work on 68000 Amiga's with up to 512k of ram. So they might have had a scarcity mentality and written the code badly, or missed some basic optimizations.