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Re: Emulation, why not
« on: January 25, 2007, 11:32:38 PM »
Are you asking why not or stating why not?

If it's former:
I never tried any amiga emulation scheme and know that it cannot equal a real amiga given my understanding of current PC architecture.  I would find it hard for any PC-based emulation to even do the floppy simulation exactly:

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Fortunately, the CIA chips have tolerance and I was able to get away with it and get it to work on some of the machines I have tried it with.  DOS seems to work better for real-time timing stuff than Windows.  Floppy rates are 500 kbits/sec for normal 880K so doing emulation of 7.16 Mhz chips or the timer chip would be beyond the scope of any PC-based timers.  I rather live in reality than some illusion that I have a real amiga on a PC.  It's like thinking that one will never die when the facts are the death rate is 100%.
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