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Not really an "emulator". It bolted on an entire Apple II-compatible system. Much like some of the earlier compatibility products (both the Amiga and Mac had ex
by LocalH 4y ago
Not really an "emulator". It bolted on an entire Apple II-compatible system. Much like some of the earlier compatibility products (both the Amiga and Mac had expansions that added a whole-ass PC on the side, the Amiga product was an official Commodore one while the Mac addon was third-party).
- ChainOfFools 4y agoah the MacCharlie and the Amiga Sidecar, both horrendously overpriced for their respective markets. Though the Amiga peripheral arguably did a much better job owing to the host system's ability to both display color as well as multitask natively, so one could use both environments simultaneously. I believe even possible to exchange data between the two while both were rinning, due to the use of dual-port RAM on the Sidecar and some sort of simple driver running on both sides handled mutexes, locks and such.
- LocalH 4y agoThe contemporary screen translation from PC to Amiga side was pretty slow, however the native PC video itself ran at full speed AFAIK. This was also the case with the later Bridgeboards as well. IIRC the MacCharlie handled monochrome text only.