Petunia will be officially the part of AmigaOS4

[Coder]

Project Petunia is an experimental Motorola 680x0 processor emulation for PowerPC based Amigas with dynamic recompilation.

Read the whole story here.

[System]

This is good news!

[redrumloa]

Sounds good, but where the heck did the name 'Petunia' come from? That's not a very manly name;-)

[Kent]

That's not a very manly name

Come to think of it... neither is Amiga or any of the original custom chips... hmm... makes ya wonder about these computers sometimes.  Personally if the computer was named something like el hombre, I would never have used it.  :-P

:pint: :-D

[redrumloa]

Well Amiga, Paula, Agnes all sounded like names of girls, girlfriends etc. That's appealing to most men;-)

Now Petunia, Buster and Gary, I don't know what these people were thinking:-) But seriously for a fast 68K emulator I would expect a name like cyclone, raging bull, blitzkrieg, Tommy Gun, Naplam etc, not the name of a fragile flower:-D

[Kronos]

Agnes  ?

OCS/ECS->Agnus
AA->Alice

[Kent]

Well, you would think names like petunia don't sound tough, just like Buttercup, Blossom, and Bubbles.  Then again you may not have seen PowerPuffGirls, that show just rules.

"I am Mojo Jojo, you can call me, Mojo Jojo" - Mojo Jojo

All it takes is just a bit of En (pause) THUUUUUUUSIASM.  :-D

"Alaman Grundy SMASH Superfriends".  God I'm showing my age.

:pint:

[theTAO]

I'm confused.  I thought the 68k emulator was a longstanding project at Haage & Partner.  They could have outsourced it, I guess, but this sounds like a completely different emulator than what was talked about years ago.

Todd

[bhoggett]

I'm confused. I thought the 68k emulator was a longstanding project at Haage & Partner. They could have outsourced it, I guess, but this sounds like a completely different emulator than what was talked about years ago.

That was a conventional 68k emulator, and is much, much slower. Bernie Meyer (the author of UAE-JIT and Amithlon) offered H&P his services in producing a PPC version of the JIT emulator, but H&P declined as this would have meant paying Mr Meyer for his work, stating that the emulator they already had was plenty good enough.  Of course, this was before the advent of Amithlon, AmigaXL and even the newer versions of UAE.  Once these were released, using a non-JIT emulator in OS4 would have made it look silly.

[redrumloa]

using a non-JIT emulator in OS4 would have made it look silly.

Silly? That's putting it kindly:-) To use a dog slow non-JIT emulation would be pathetic and unnaceptable.

[Chathurawind]

> That was a conventional 68k emulator, and is much, much slower.

Ah, thanks for the clarification.  I was concerned at first because I'm sure it takes lots time to write a good emulator.  Having just read the interview with the programmer, though, he sounds like a highly-competent guy, and he's been working on it for over a year.

Todd

[Chathurawind]

Ehm, it's a flower:)