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A story: I completed a PDP11 assembly coding assignment in university, on an Amiga. Actually it was an Amiga running a Mac emulator, which in turn was running a
by stevoski 9y ago
A story: I completed a PDP11 assembly coding assignment in university, on an Amiga. Actually it was an Amiga running a Mac emulator, which in turn was running a PDP11 emulator.
Macs at that time used a variable speed floppy drive, while the Amiga floppy drive was fixed speed. So I was also using a Mac-compatible external floppy disk drive.
The point of the story is that you could use an Amiga as a Mac if you really wanted to.
- fractallyte 9y agoFusion - a commercial Mac emulator for the Amiga - actually ran faster than a real Mac at the time (mid- to late-nineties). I sneaked out a couple of ROM images from the Macs at work, set up Fusion, and had CompuServe running on my Amiga back in 1997. Nothing else though - System 7 and 8 were complex, lackluster, slow, and crash-prone; AmigaOS really blew away the Mac, right up until OSX.
- einr 9y agoRetroManCave on YouTube had an interesting video recently that investigated the performance and capabilities of running a Mac emulator on an Amiga vs. a real 68k Mac, and which actually was faster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jph0gxzL3UI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jph0gxzL3UI Very impressive stuff. Being able to run Mac software would mean access to Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXpress, Framemaker, Microsoft Word and Excel and other business/DTP software that unfortunately wasn't really available natively on Amiga. I suspect lots of people used Mac emulators to make their Amiga a viable school/work machine, in addition to all the creative fun and games the native platform afforded.