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AGA emulating boards

    01-Nov-93 15:22:36
Sb: AGA emulating boards
Fm: Meyn Consulting 100034,2210
To: all
Because of the incresing number of new graphic hardware I would like to ask the users of those boards, or anyone who knows about their compatibility. There are now quite a lot boards with AGA-Emulation: Retina, PicassoII, Merlin2, and maybe some others. I would like to know at which level do they emulate it, and how well it is implemented. This should be interesting for several people, so I will gather all the results you post here, and send them again to this forum. The reason why I ask this, is because there already are many programs out there, which use the new AGA chipset, but as we all know, this isn't available for older Amigas. While software that really uses a 24bit graphics boards is still rare, it would be good to be able to use AGA programs on, for example, an A2000. So if you have one of those AGA Boards in an "old" Amiga, tell me which AGA programs run, which don't, and what other limitations, if any, there are (I think HAM8 will be hard to emulate). Also it would be interesting if any of those AGA games work. While I think it would be quite impossible for an auto-booting game, there might be a chance for HardDisk installable games, but all depends on the way the AGA emulation works, and how well the program is written.