Re: Late night musings...

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <4vmdd1$dmv@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us>,
Martin Gruen <z008729b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us> wrote:
>  Don't flame me, it's late and I'm thinking on a curved plane.
>  Has anyone attempted to create a GS/OS based Apple II emulator?  
>  Bear with me, it could be made to run smoother without slow downs when 
>there's too many things moving on the screen at the same time (as higher 
>levels in many II games tended to do).  A mockingboard/echo emulator 
>could be routed through the ensoniqe without the need of putting one of 
>those cheesy things into a otherwise cool system.  Some problems like 
>alternate display screen swapping and such that prevent some earlier games 
>that ran in early II's, but not c's or gs's could be fixed.  (I hate 
>firing up the II+ just to play Sneakers).
>  Of course it could all be hard drive based, and disk access would be 
>faster than those really damn slow 5.25 that don't always transfer to 
>DOS3.3 launcher images well (could run the standard types instead).
>  You could map the keyboard to match up other configurations (eg. Ultima 
>one used a cluster that is awkward at best on a IIgs keyboard).  Heck 
>loads of options all imbedded in the CDAs or options and command keys.  
>  This is sounding cooler as I think on it, it must be late.
>  Opinions?
>
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There would be a substantial performance hit for a true "emulator".
The next closest thing would be a way of enhancing backwards compatibility,
and that wouldn't work.... you need an emulator to get the mockingboard
functions.

So, you're looking at something that will only seriously help the
people with 13+ MHz Zips.


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