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The Amiga’s startup hand was holding something that looked roughly like a Workbench disk. Roughly was the problem. Bernd Schmidt’s emulator had produced a badly distorted version of the familiar picture, and there was still work to do before anyone could call this an Amiga they would want to use. Schmidt fixed his blitter code, and the picture improved. Later, Workbench booted from a floppy image with a convincing color display and… Read more

The first hand on Bernd Schmidt’s emulated Amiga screen was badly misshapen. It was supposed to be holding a Workbench disk, but his early blitter code still had bugs. Fixing those brought the picture closer to the familiar startup screen, and the next job was getting the rest of the machine to behave. Schmidt wanted to keep using Amiga software as he moved toward PCs, including the music from Turrican. Some Usenet… Read more