From: ignac@electro.electro.com (Ignac Kolenko)
Subject: Re: ACE'92 show: Report
Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, ON, Canada
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 15:13:54 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.045538.1530@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> bl692@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dan Ackerman II) writes:
>
>Dear Mr. Dhir,
>
>	Question how in the He** are you supposed to run Spectre
>without the Spectre Cartridge (or more appropriately the Mac
>Roms it contains)?  Maybe run the pirate file versions of the Mac
>Roms like Darryl Microsofts running a pirate version of TOS?

Darryl Microsoft??? egad, some people are really ignorant.

seems like you were not at the show. too bad, since darek would 
have explained (quite pleasantly, i might add! :-)
to you that the Gemulator will be sold with a PC ROM board
where you will plug in Legal TOS roms. In fact, he is
right now working on a deal with Atari to have Atari supply him
with TOS roms to plug into his Gemulator so that the final
product will come ready to run GEM, TOS, etc.

As for Spectre, the board which holds the TOS roms can be made
with two more rom sockets (mapped in at 128K below the
TOS roms - hey, JUST LIKE A CARTRIDGE PORT!) where the Mac Roms
can be plugged into. And voila, run the Spectre code, and you should
be emulating a Mac just like that. And if Spectre is legal if you
purchase a Legal copy of the Mac roms, then Gemulator will be legal
if you purchase the Mac roms. period.

>
>Bet Apple would really like to hear that.  Put my name on the list
>of people that say good riddance to bad rubbish, glad to see you
>leave the ST world, Darek.  

seems people have a problem with Darek and his "attitude", but
lets face it: he is a developer, not a marketing person. If people
are interested enough in the concept behind the 68000 Emulator 
then he may
(or should) get a PR person to handle the marketing of the
product. then people don't have to deal with him directly!

I went to the University of Waterloo (and so did Darek
by the way), and I know first hand that a) we did not have
enough 68000 breadboard kits to do developement work whenever
a class needed working 68000 code, and b) since the engineering
network is a PC network, it would be quite nice to add the
68000 emulation software to that network, so that EVERYONE
will have access to a 68000 emulator, not just the people
who have to do a project for that class.
Engineering schools should be very interested
in this idea, since engineering and programming classes can use
the 68000 emulator rather than the usual Motorola 68000 breadboard
kits that most schools have for 68000 projects. This will save
time and money since hardware will no longer have to be purchased
and maintained.

if people have a problem with his attitude, so be it. Don't
let it detract from an excellent job in software engineering,ok?

>
>P.S.  I have to deal with an IBM enough at work why would I want
>to drag one of the dam* things into my house.


some people, like myself, are FORCED to use PCs at work due to
company "standardization to a single platform". So for people
like us (and i would hazard the guess that the majority of
people out in the world are subject to stupid company rules
such as these) having a software/hardware combination that
allows us to run our favourite software from the atari world
on a PC makes at least me quite happy. i'll be using the emulator
more than i would use windows, thank you very much.

and since i have a 386 machine at home, as well as a 1040ST,
i will be able to boast that i have TWO 1040ST's in my home.

wow! i never thought i would come to Darek's defence so easily,
but when a piece of software technology as impressive as the
Gemulator is being dismissed because of the programmer's
"attitude", then it's time to come to the defence of the
software technology.


oh, btw, i saw the ST Book at the ACE show. neat! very impressive
little product, except (and there's always an exception) for the
LCD screen. It was simply, UNREADABLE. far too faint. you can't
see anything if you not directly in front of the screen. that
part of the Book MUST be improved if atari is going to sell any
of these things. My first impression was "hey, this is 
neat", but after using it for a few minutes, i decided, "i
wouldn't buy this thing because of the screen".


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