On 01/22/2006 at 11:49 AM, Marian Petrides wrote: > How many other folks on this list have a > comparable machine kicking around?
My computing roots are similar to those of the Mac followers here. However, my fanatic obsession lies with the Commodore Amiga. I have owned 2 Amiga computers over the years, an A500, and an A4000 (top of the line). The Amiga, like the Mac, was born in 1984. Several creative and inventive people have created emulators to allow the "Mac experience" to be shared by the Amiga community. The one that I had (and still have) was called "Emplant". It was a hardware emulator created by Jim Drew. This thing was great! Since the A4000 utilized the Motorola 68040 cpu, the emulation was almost at 100% speed of a real Mac. This thing was an internal hardware card which included a SCSI chip, and 2 Mac serial ports. My first experience of the internet was through AOL, running inside my emulated Mac. Those serial ports allowed the Mac emulation to access modems and printers. Fondly thinking back, there was no Mac software that I tried that would not work. My kids grew up on Mac educational software, and Amiga native games. It was so cool to see my 4 year old son casually cranking up emulation software and understanding that we were playing in a "pretend" Mac. On a legal note, at the time it was legal to run a Mac emulator as long as you also had in your posession the authentic Macintosh ROM chips, either purchased from Apple, or extracted from a real Mac. Many Emplant owners got theirs from Mac repair shops (pulled from dead motherboards). Even on the Amiga itself, I purchased a short-lived development software called "Foundation". It was so similar to HyperCard that it was scary. There was no HC import module, but I did successfully copy/paste scripts from Mac HC into Amiga Foundation, and recreated a cool recipe database that I had made in HC. Oh, did I mention that the Mac emulation was running as a "task" of the Amiga OS. The Amiga was one of the first computers that could truly multitask and dynamically allocate RAM to its tasks. The clipboard was shared between OS's. It's just too darn bad they met an early demise due to poor management and lack of marketing focus. They do exist today, but the new Amiga is Linux kernal based. Kinda like OSX is based on Darwin/BSD. Sorry for the long OT post... just had a memory flood (in a good way). ;-) Kind regards, Roger Eller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
