Useable PPC Emulator

[djbase]

You have to buy a 3 GHz x86 to emulate something like a 75 MHz
Pseudo-G3. What will I need to emulate a G4 1GHz or a G5 2 GHz? And
all people now screaming that the PPC will die.

[Hammer]

A member of Microsoft has commented on PearPC...

Refer to;
http://groups.google.com.au/groups?q=PearPC+Microsoft&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=mecklists-3AB896.09312215052004%40msnews.microsoft.com&rnum=1

[Hammer]

all people now screaming that the PPC will die.

It may have another effect i.e. a demo for it’s ISA architecture.

[bloodline]

PearPC's long term speed problems will probably lie with the PPC MMU and the prophensity for PPC programs to use Big Endien Data.

The MMU problem wil be solved in time, but learning how PPC software tens to use the MMU, the Byte ordering problem won't be solved until the x86 grows a big endien mode/instructions.

All in all I expect this Emulator to get quite a bit faster, I see no reason to think that 70% of native speed is an unobtainable figure :-D

[lempkee]

if thats 70% then i am a genie in a bottle with wings ...

sorry guys but its been installing here at work now for over 8 hours and it aint done yet and btw i will head home in less than 30 minutes so....errmmmm WHAT?

[Seehund]

[AmigaOS 4+] won't be on KazZaA, for sure.

Of course it will. It doesn't matter if a piece of software checks an embedded serial number or something to see if you bought your hardware from the "right" place, or if it checks copy protection on a CD. Everything gets cracked.

The problem for AmigaOS is that it will not be for sale. The compulsory hardware licensing scheme means that there can be no paying AmigaOS customers for emulators or hardware from other vendors, while pirates won't be bothered. And they had the nerve to try to solicit knee-jerk support for this by claiming that it's an "anti piracy measure"...

[bhoggett]

I see some comments on this subject as quite laughable.

First of all, this is a very young project and nowehere near any real optimisation. Anyone remember what the early UAE was like?

70% of native efficiency is probably possible - in time. Not today though, so I don't see why people are scoffing based on the performance at this point.

PPC paranoia: what the f...?  If the PPC based systems are good enough, they'll survive. If not, tough. Uncompetitive products deserve to die, and if that's what is in store for AmigaOnes and Pegasos, so be it. Learn to live with that reality.

There's x86 emulation for the PPC (Bochs etc), so why shouldn't there be PPC emulation for the x86? One day people will laugh at the idea of writing CPU specific applications, indeed I suspect one day people will laugh at the idea of creating OS specific applications too.

[Waccoon]

One day people will laugh at the idea of writing CPU specific applications, indeed I suspect one day people will laugh at the idea of creating OS specific applications too.

Didn't everyone predict Java would be dead ten years ago because it was so damn slow?  In non-PC and console markets, it's about the only language used, these days.

Microsoft saw early that hardware dependence is trouble.  Why don't companies learn?

[Hammer]

@Etho  

IF the error was “FAILURE: DiskArbStart() -> 1102”

Change the

prom_env_machargs = "-v"

to

prom_env_machargs = ""

[spanner]

Has anyone tried this again its like 8 years ago this post now..