Message Forum: Re: Old computers.

Re: Old computers.

Posted By: Joona I Palaste, on host 195.197.251.180
Date: Saturday, June 19, 2004, at 04:01:28
In Reply To: Re: Old computers. posted by Sam on Friday, June 18, 2004, at 05:52:33:

> > I also play them on a real Amiga. WHDLoad (http://www.whdload.de) is brilliant. It's like an Amiga emulator for the Amiga.
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> Pray tell, while I listeneth, the point of such a thing?

It emulates the CPU and custom chips of an older Amiga model under a newer one. This allows games whose program code insists on accessing various registers and memory locations directly instead of using OS functions to work in an environment where those registers and memory locations are in a different place.

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Message:	> > > I also play them on a real Amiga. WHDLoad (http://www.whdload.de) is brilliant. It's like an Amiga emulator for the Amiga. > > > > Pray tell, while I listeneth, the point of such a thing? > > It emulates the CPU and custom chips of an older Amiga model under a newer one. This allows games whose program code insists on accessing various registers and memory locations directly instead of using OS functions to work in an environment where those registers and memory locations are in a different place.
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