Re: A2 Users: Endanged Species? I think not.

[phoenyx <phoenyx@texas.net>]

Supertimer wrote:

> The thing about the IIGS' emulation is that it is an emulation plus an
> evolution of physical hardware.  As such, the user has new hardware
> to play with.  Like I said earlier, I like to feel the hardware in my
> hands.
>
> Put it another way, the IIGS emulation is so transparent that the user
> does not know most of the time.  If you can get emulation to that
> level, then I would agree you would have captured most of the essense
> of the machine.  The PowerMac emulating the 68k Mac to run Quadra
> software is another example of this "total emulation."  But Bernie
> emulating a IIGS leaves a little bit to be desired, don't you think?
>
> Perhaps you are not as diehard a IIGS user as I am.  I can put one
> foot in the modern world (my Win 95 unit) and one foot in the classic
> one (my IIGS unit) and I'm comfortable with that.  I don't have to give
> up one for the other.  I don't have to try to "eat" my IIGS world with
> my Win 95 one.  Why can't we just let the classics be the classics?
> Why do we have to destroy the classics and render them to
> emulation?

Emulation has some uses. For instance. I can set up different HDV
images to test software configurations. Something not easily done
on the real thing unless you have several hard drives. This has come
in handy a few times for testing software.

Phoenyx