I am awed by the code writing ability of those emulator authors but wonder if the energy isn't misdirected now.
Very capable Mac and IBM-compatibles can be had cheaply,and for some years the monitors have been the same. So simply put the "other" computers under or over countertop and use a switchbox for the monitor.You can hardly hope to emulate a Pentium 3 800 mhz on the Amiga but you can buy one for $50 or less ,same with a nice 233-333 iMac.
Now what I think would be GREAT is an Amiga "emulator" running on a iMac PPC hitting the hardware! After all if linux is an alternative on an iMac ,and it is,I have ubuntu 6 on my $40 ex-university one.(Tehy cleaned the hard drive of even the MacOS before selling it,which is common these days.
If no legal Amiga OS4 can be licensed for such things,can a BSD/linux based Amiga emulation be used if one has/buys Amiga forever to get the legal ROM imsage? Or if one owns an older Amiga?I am imaging my A3000 and/or A1200 features and functions running on a machine with 10 times the processor speed and 20 times the memory without going broke.
Has it already been done? I DON"T mean something running as a MACOS task but installed from a cd as did ubuntu linux. I wonder how much faster and better UAE would run if it didn't have to run on top of Windows. Or do I misunderstand how it works?
