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Emulators Inc. was originally founded as Branch Always Software by software developers Darek Mihocka and Ignac Kolenko. Over the years both have been published in national computer magazines and have developed software for Atari, Mac, and PC platforms.
Three things make Emulators Inc. products great:
Experience. We have 11 years of experience developing emulators and have over 10,000 customers worldwide. We were one of the first to develop Atari 800, Atari ST, and Apple Macintosh emulation for MS-DOS and Windows 3.1, and are now the first to offer true Apple Macintosh emulation for Windows 95.
Speed: Our 6502, 68000, and 68040 emulation engines are written in hand optimized assembly language, typically running 2 to 5 times faster than other emulators. Gemulator 98 has already been optimized to take full advantage of the latest Pentium speed features such as MMX.
Price: Since we've been privately held for over a decade, we don't need to impress Wall Street investors or pay off huge startup loans. As a result, we don't gouge you on price. A complete Gemulator 98 package with ROM card costs about the same as a new modem or video card. Emulation does not have to be expensive!
Every few months we go and give live product demos around the U.S. and Canada. If you belong to a Mac or Atari user group we'd be more than happy to arrange a visit in the next few months. We do offer user group discounts and corporate discounts for large orders, so please call to find out more.
Our correspondance and UPS shipping address is:
We can also be contacted by phone Monday through Friday for placing orders, or any time by fax and email:
phone: 206-236-0540
fax: 206-236-0257
email: info@emulators.com
Here is a brief timeline of our major milestones, product releases, and show dates:
That month's issue of ANTIC contained Darek's Atari 8-bit Graphics Utility Package for speeding up screen graphics. A similar utility for the Atari ST called Quick ST would be released 4 years later.
ST Xformer 1.0, the world's first Atari 8-bit emulator, is released as freeware.
ST Xformer 2.0 is released as shareware, combining Atari 800, Apple II, and Commodore 64 emulation in one emulator. Apple II and Commodore 64 emulation were eventually dropped for legal reasons. ST Xformer 2.0 had a GEM based user interface making it easy to configure and use. ST Xformer 2.0 was also about twice as fast as ST Xformer 1.0, making it usable for most programs.
ST Xformer 2.31 is released with support for 800XL emulation and the new Xformer disk drive cable (the same cable that is being re-released shortly for use with ST Xformer). With the cable, Atari ST users can directly connect Atari 8-bit disk drives to their STs and use them directly with the emulator. The product is demoed at the 1988 Toronto ACE show the following month.
Release of ST Xformer 2.4 and later in the year ST Xformer 2.5 and 2.55. The world's first 130XE emulators. ST Xformer 2.55 is made freeware in September.
We release Quick ST, the shareware screen accelerator for the Atari ST, and follow it up with several upgrades during the summer. We also start releasing other utilities that would eventually become Quick Tools.
Quick ST 1.8 is released commercally and quickly becomes a very popular screen accelerator for the Atari ST. Later versions are also released in Germany and England, and it is also bundled with the ICD Adspeed and other accelerator boards.
At the 1990 Toronto ACE show we release Quick Tools, a package of 10 utilities for the Atari ST, including Quick ST 2.0, Quick Index, Quick Find, Quick Inf, Quick View, and others. Something for everybody. Later in the month, Quick ST version 2.1 is released with support for GDOS fonts.
A busy year of Atari shows, with the World of Atari show in San Jose, the Glendale show a few weeks later, and the WAACE show in Virginia a few weeks after that. In between running from show to show to show, Quick ST 2.2 is released.
Quick ST 3.0, the final major upgrade of Quick ST is released at the 1991 Glendale show. This version added 68030 and TT support, background pictures, custom fonts, better GDOS support, and a slew of optimizations. One of our most widely sold product releases.
The Chicago show, held on a cold snowy weekend, still manages to attract a large crowd of both Atari 8-bit and Atari ST users from several states. It is at this show where we demonstrate PC Xformer 1.0 and an early prototype of Gemulator. PCs at that time were still a little too expensive and too slow, so we hand out about 700 questionnaires at the show, asking people about their needs for Atari emulators. Atari ST emulation by far is the most requested emulator. Quick ST is shown and sold for the last time. After the show we start talking to other developers willing to take over Quick ST as we prepare to develop the world's first Atari ST emulator.
The Toronto show again, we make the world's first public demo of the now functioning Gemulator prototype on a 486 computer. This is when the jaws start dropping and the "this is impossible" and "emulators can't do this" comments start.
The Gemulator prototype is shown again, this time at the MIST show in Indianapolis. Hundreds of advance orders have already come in from Atari users eager to run their software on the PC.
Gemulator 1.0 is finally released at the 1992 Glendale show and shown again a month later at the WAACE show. Gemulator 2.0 is released in November.
Gemulator 2.1 is released, with smaller memory requirements and improved hard disk support. Versions in Germany and England are also released. Gemulator is demonstrated in March at the Sacramento show.
Gemulator 3.0 is released. As with Quick ST 3.0, this 3.0 version also turned out to be a very popular version. By the end of the year the product is available in North America, Europe, and Australia. ST Xformer 3.0, a minor upgrade to ST Xformer 2.55 is also released and bundled with Gemulator 3.0.
The release of Gemulator 3.02 finally allows Gemulator for the first time to run well on a 4 megabyte PC. Sales go ballistic and we soon reach our 1000th, and then our 2000th Gemulator customer later in the year.
We're back demonstrating Gemulator at the Sacramento show but we also bring a demo of PC Xformer again. A large number of Atari 8-bit users show up and like what they see.
PC Xformer is finally released to the public as version 2.0. Atari 8-bit emulation comes to the PC, having similar features to ST Xformer. The cover of Current Notes magazine that summer shows a picture of a PC running PC Xformer.
PC Xformer 3.0 is released commercially, with full support of Player Missile Graphics, GTIA graphics, display list interrupts, and other new features. The product is also made available by dealers in Germany and England.
We are at the Toronto show once again to show a new product, this time Gemulator 4.0. A few weeks later we jet across the continent to Sacramento to demo it at their show.
Gemulator 4.0 becomes available early in the month and we once again demo at the Indianapolis show. PC Xformer 3.2, a much faster 8-bit emulator is also released at the show.
Two major product upgrades are released at the Toadfest in Maryland - Gemulator 4.1 and PC Xformer 3.3. Gemulator 4.1 fixes many of the initial problems of the 4.0 release, while PC Xformer 3.3 improves where 3.2 left off with even faster speed and better compatibility.
Product release mania! Gemulator 4.15 is released at the Houston Atari Safari. PC Xformer 3.5 and the Xformer 8-bit peripheral cable are released on March 1. Gemulator Gold, the ultimate Atari emulators CD, is released at the Sacramento show.
Gemulator Classic and Gemulator Laptop Edition are released.
Gemulator 96 is released as is the Gemulator 96 Demo. Branch Always Software is renamed Emulators Inc.
Gemulator versions 3.6 and 4.6 are released.
Gemulator 98 is released.
phone: 206-236-0540, fax: 206-236-0257, email: info@emulators.com
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