Re: WANTED: Information on Apple II copy protection

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rcain3@mindspring.com (The Silicon Knight) wrote:

>mikew50@aol.com says...
>>  
>> I dunno how it does under XGS, and don't care a whole lot. Why? Because
>> it runs like a bat out of hell on my 200MHz 604e clone under Gus. Based
>> on comparitons with an 8MHz GS, I'd say I work on roughly a 40MHz
>> equivalent these days.
>> 
>I have XGS (Win32) on a 200MHz Pentium, and it runs slower than a Stock 
>(2.5MHz) GS.

Yup.  That's why I said it would be a nightmare running Orca C on XGS,
if it will run at all.  It is all well and good that people have jumped to the
defense of Gus and Bernie, but that does not help PC users.  Someone
was trying to imply that Nathan could program faster on an emulator.
Anyone who reads csa2 for more than a week should he's got no Mac.
To a PC user, a real GS is better...much better.

Gus has many advantages.  A 200Mhz 604e runs significantly faster
than a 200Mhz Pentium (fast for an average PC).  Gus also does an
incomplete job of emulating the GS, leaving out sound.  XGS is also
written in C for portability.  XGS is the better concept, but computing
has not gotten fast enough to realize it.

>I haven't kept up with Gus, is it still available?  Is the 
>Byteworks going to carry it (if Apple drops it)?  My NeXT computer is 
>going to be a G3 Mac, with the hopes of continueing a "reasonable" GS 
>environment (Bernie or Gus).  A 40MHz GS sounds great!  If someone would 
>develope an Accelerator card (anything over 10MHz), I'd buy it for my 
>other two "unaccelerated" GS's!  Speaking of what I'd buy, GSoft!!!!  :)

The PowerPC based emulators will run much faster, but keep in mind
that in an emulator, 40Mhz does not always mean 40Mhz.  Sometimes
it says one speed and you know it is running slower.  Emulators will
slow down and speed up when the emulated computer is doing "extras"
like playing music.  (Gus also has no serial port support, right?)