Re: A Tale of Two Apples

[bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major)]

Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:

> In article bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major) writes...
> 
> >And for your information--although they serve a need for many people, I
> >dislike emulators.  Any kind.  I believe in using the real thing, where
> >possible.  So I won't be one of the people using any kind of IIgs
> >emulator on a PowerMac.
> 
>     True, the real thing is almost always better, though I still very
> much like the concept myself. It isn't every day your 486 or Pentium
> monitor displays "Welcome to the IIGS", plays a game of Task Force
> or outputs MIDIsynth music sequences. :) If platform consoles aren't
> your cup of tea, you might want to look at arcade emulators for the
> PC and Mac such as MAME 0.29 or System 16. They're very faithful to
> the original stand up arcade machines in every sense, and obviously
> your not going to have much room to put one of those beasts in your
> living room now, are you? :-)

I've tried several of the arcade emulators you mention; a friend of mine
is heavily involved in arcade emulator work; in fact you might want to
have a look at his web page:  www.zws.com.  He has many sound files and
screen shots there for you to look at as well.  And I've tried the MAME
and System 16 and a whole bunch of other ones on the Mac & PC.  The main
reasons for my dislike are that the home console emulators are usually
(but not always) silent.  This is a very bad feature to me because all
the current home video game consoles have had good stereo sound ever
since the Sega Genesis & Turbografix-16.  Second, very few of these
emulators play with joysticks, let along the high quality arcade-style
joysticks you can buy for home use now.  They make you play with the
keyboard, which is totally unnatural to me.  If they improve in that
regard, I may give them a second look--but I'd still prefer the real
thing, any day.

> 
> >P.S.  If you are internet connnected with your GS as you say you are,
> >why don't you have a *real* email address, as in one that can be
> >*replied* to?????
> 
>     He apparently posts messages anonymously through a local library,
> though if has has any sort of telnet access (which I would assume so)
> it would be a simple matter to get an e-mail account at one of the
> many Freenets out there. I have one myself in Denver, and plan to
> get another in Toronto once I move there (I had a Montreal Freenet
> account, but like most things in this city, it went bankrupt and
> disappeared after four months).
> 
>     All you need to do is fill out the online application and then
> print, sign and drop that form in the mail.

I already knew about his posting from a local library; but he bragged
about having TCP/IP access on his GS, so I wondered why he wasn't using
it (or a shell account) for email.

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