Re: Apple // emulation contention

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Gabriel Morales (Togega@concentric.net) wrote:

: > Bernie is a work of art and certainly the best IIGS emulator ever.
: > 
: > It is not, however, up the the level of Mac emulation on a PowerMac
: > or Apple II emulation on a IIGS.  Those are flawless emulations
: > designed from scratch and built into the hardware.

: 	This is true; I wish I could just double click a GSOS App and work
: with it as if it were a Mac program.

You can't do that with a //e card in an LC class Mac either. You run an app
called IIe Startup, which causes the card to kick in. It gives a splash screen
and tries to boot from a 5.25 drive connected to the card or a 3.5 disk in the 
Mac's drive, hence the Mac looks like a //e when you first fire it up.

: 	Nevertheless, isn't it possible, with technology being what
: it is today, to condense an Apple IIGS down to an expansion card or two,
: and thus providing the hardware- expansion slots & everything- needed to
: fully "emulate" an Apple IIGS?

Too many Apple copyrighted components in there, and Apple would have approx-
imately zero interest in doing such a product. They've left the PC emulation
card market to third parties now even.
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