9 Aug
2014
9 Aug
'14
10:21 a.m.
On 9 August 2014 18:50, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
Sorry for the ignorance, . . .
is UAE some sort of Amiga Emulation?
Yup. Unix Amiga Emulator. One of the first and arguably the best.
It amuses me that when the first Amiga emulators started to appear in
the late 1990s, everyone thought they were dummies and spoofs...
Showed a Kickstart logo, span the drive motor, sucked a lot of CPU.
People were mystified on disassembling them to find bits of 68000 code
etc. I mean *obviously* it was impossible to emulate the sophisticated
hardware of the *Amiga!*
Then they started /working.../
UAE was one of the first. Its name is now a misnomer -- it's been widely-ported.
Windoze 3.0 had constant problems with UAEs
("Unexpected Application
Error"). One of the most important tasks for Windoze 3.1 was "Eliminate
UAEs". They did! - in 3.1, they were no longer "Unexpected".
I saw a T-shirt once: "I thought UAE was somewhere in Arabia until I
got Windows 3"
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