Re: IIgs emulation...

[Matt Portune <mportune@telerama.com>]

Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
>     On a 166 MHz Pentium I found XGS runs faster than a stock Apple IIgs, 

Yup, unfortunately nobody has taken on the task to really optimize
XGS-win32, like they have for XGS-DOS.  I have found though, that the
win32 version running on a p-II 300 is fast enought to actually compete
with my real-life 14.33MHz GS.

> why I wish someone would do something along the lines of GuS or BTTR for
> Intel based machine. You could even have it support 1.44 MB ProDOS disks
> directly, the PC reads them just fine since they're MFM encoded). XGS is
> little more than a novality in its current form.

BTTR is still the best emulator of anything I've ever seen, period.  On
top of programming skill, Henrik and company have a way with interface
design.  I've begged on several occasion for him to write a win32 version,
but he just laughs in my face.  hehe  :)

>     Yep, which is why I keep my Apple IIgs sitting on my desk next to
> my PC, hooked up and still running daily. :)

Agreed.  Emulators are darn cool, but the real thing is untouchable.

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