On Friday, January 12th, 1996 - Christopher Gray wrote:
 
CG> My dad just bought a used Mega STE 4 with the SuperCharger DOS 
CG> emulator. 
 
I have one of those.  Mine is an external module that plugs into the DMA 
hard drive port.
 
What is yours like?
 
CG> He remembers reading about a planned upgrade to the SC, one that would
CG> involve a 386 CPU (I think an old 8086 chip is used presently).
CG> Does anyone know if this upgrade was ever implemented?
 
I don't think so.  The latest hardware based PC emulator works only on
the Atari Falcon030.  It is called the Falcon Speed AT Emulator, and
retails for $289.  Unfortunately, it is a 286 at 16MHz.
 
Today you can buy a used 386 PC with 3 megs of RAM, a VGA card and VGA
monitor, and a 130 meg SCSI hard drive for around $300.  It is rather
pointless to pay for expensive emulators - just buy a used PC and then
you can have your cake and eat it too (Other than the VGA display, the
STe is still going to be the better system).
 
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