G'day DENNIS,   
      
    In a message dated 27 Mar 03 you wrote:   
      
    DS>> Will BOCHS be ported to the Amiga ONE under AOS 4 is the question?   
      
    >> Who knows? Anyways, with Win based machines being as cheap as they are,   
    >> why would you need to emulate one?   
      
    DS> How about the AmigaOne? I might want to run a certain Windows prg.   
    DS> That's a flexible quality to have.   
      
   For the price of just the AmigaOne motherboard, I can buy a whole Win   
   outfitted PC. I don't see the need for emulation.   
      
   TBH, no emulation is perfect. DOSemu under linux is about as close to perfect   
   as any emulation I've ever seen, but then what programs are written   
   exclusively for MSDOS these days? Win emulation on the Mac can be good, but   
   needs quite powerful hardware to make it easily useable, and then it's missing   
   small parts that make the whole thing tedious to use regularly.   
      
   Even WinUAE isn't perfect, as you'd probably know by now. Once again, powerful   
   hardware will mostly overcome the emulation shortcomings, though it hasn't   
   replaced the Amiga hardware completely..   
      
   As for a Win emulation on the AmigaOne, hadn't you better wait 'til it   
   actually has an operating system to run on it before trying to emulate others?   
      
   [YAM]   
    DS>>> I d/l'ed v2.3p1 back in November.   
    >>    
    >> Same version I'm using here. Now that I finally have all the MUI classes   
    >> sorted out, YAM has given me no troubles.   
      
    DS> That's good to hear. I hope to get YAM installed and get an ISP for it   
    DS> and using it for April via UAE.   
      
   Well, once you have it all running, go here...   
      
   http://home.t-online.de/home/sebauer/english.html   
      
   And grab the latest NListTree &  NList classes to speed up internal YAM   
   execution. Worth the effort, especially on mail folders with lots of messages.   
      
    >> [...]   
    DS>>> I was surprised that Voyager ran in AIAB! The internet package for   
    DS>>> "Jaybee's Amiga In A Box" -- [aiab.emuunlim.com] is Voyager...   
    >> Yeah. Unfortunately software development on the Amiga has outstripped   
    >> the middle-range machines. A 68060 is probably the minimum requirement   
    >> these days, with either UAE on a fastish pentium or Amithon on the   
    >> same box being recommended.   
      
    >> Sad fact, but true.    
      
    DS> Is the GVP "Tekmagic" 060 a good buy?   
      
   I can't honestly say. I don't know anyone who has one. I can recommend the   
   Blizzard 2060 though. Try asking on Amiga.org about the GVp card.   
      
    DS> This May is one year since the A1 was ordered. If it doesn't show   
    DS> by this May, I was thinking about moving on to this upgrade for old   
    DS> A2K. I really need more memory and some speed. Using Thor uses up   
    DS> just about everything! That's why I use this AmiQWK.   
      
   Well, I don't intend to spend a whole lotta cash on Amiga stuff in the near   
   future. Like Neil said in his post on this subject, bite the bullet and buy   
   what you want NOW. Hanging 'round waiting for the next generation is just   
   leave you diappointed when it doesn't show.   
      
    CH>> I never do email from Windows. I have a dislike for M$'s Outlook   
      
    DS>>> Well, I'm an AOL winnie, so I don't run into any mail problems.   
    DS>>> :-/   
    >> What? AOL stops people sending you email virii?    
      
    DS> Well, no one can 'stop' people from sending a virus, it's the system in   
    DS> place receiving it that matters. Spam and viruses have difficulty with   
    DS> AOLs filters. Yep. AOL is everything: ISP, email, IRC, browser, giant   
    DS> filter, etc. I have not come across virius of any kind in the last two   
    DS> years. I think 'bugbear' try to sneak in from my YahooGroups awhile   
    DS> back, but it didn't get any where.:)   
      
   Doing email on the Amiga means you don't even have to sweat. :]   
      
    DS> However, unlike 'OutLook Depress' I can't use plain text. There are no   
    DS> settings! Your forced into using HTML. Yep, talking to Amigans bent on   
    DS> plain text is a pain to say the least. I have to keep reminding them   
    DS> that their Yahoo account mail flags can do something about that. =:o   
      
   Yeah, it can be fixed under Yahoo's (and Hotmail's for that matter) interface,   
   but as Windows users most of 'em don't even know it's happening.   
      
   I setup and maintain all the email clients on the machines at work and one of   
   the first things I check after creating a new account on a machine is that the   
   "plain text" box is checked in Outlook. Apart from anything else, we have a   
   traffic quota on our server and sending the same message as both text and html   
   could possibly send us over the monthly limit.   
      
    >> [...]   
      
    DS> I visted the MorphZone recently, I see Genesi-USA is setting up a HQ in   
    DS> Arizona. AI continues to give us the silent treatment.   
      
   What can I say? I've tried MorphOS and it's extremely "Amiga-like" but I'm yet   
   to even hear of anyone seeing AmigaOS 4. You draw your own conclusions.   
      
    Cache Ya,   
    Craig.   
      
   ... Elegant, graceful, Amiga (giggle) - Asha DeVelder   
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