[GEM Development] Weird idea...
Lyrical Nanoha
LyricalNanoha at dosius.ath.cx
Thu Feb 23 21:54:23 PST 2006
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Michael Bernstein wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> I've thought about it, but it never got off the ground, I thought of
>> making use of the running DOS and GEM to make a high-level Atari ST
>> emulator. ("CrySTal" would be a good name for it!)
>
> This idea has one big problem: a DOS based PC has not enough resources
> to emulate a ST. If you have a smaller Atari, you can have a minimum
> of 1 MB RAM. Ataris with less RAM are not much used. The GEM system of
> Atari ST has newer functions which are not available on PC/GEM. Look
> at a modern Atari system with NVDI, NAES or XaAES, ... and underlying
> MiNT kernel for multitasking. And you need much more than DOS and
> PC/GEM.
I'm talking the older STs, running 2.x ROMs, as a start. For that, I
think a 486/50 with 8 MB ought to be enough for starters.
-uso.
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