That is just totally crazy! :crazy:
I just fell out of a timewarp.
The last time I read EAB the coders were all like Commander Adama 'No PPC Emulation while I am in command of this ship!'. They were all like 'ppc is useless. We will never have that.' But now you are saying they allow PPC emu? And is it any good? How fast is it? How compatible?
Holy crap you have exploded my brain!!!!
p.s. once again there is no appropriate smiley for how I am feeling at this moment.
I guess you have been busy under some rock (probably work, or personal life related) for the past year or so, while all the talk about adding PPC emulation to WinUAE has been going on.
Welcome back from your timewarp!
I have not tried OS4.1FE on WinUAE, or taken a good look at how fast it can run, since I have an X1000 to run OS4.x, but I would be interested in reading some test results that show real world performance results on varying PC hardware, to see just how useful, or fun AmigaOS4.1FE can be under emulation.
I have been highly critical of Hyperion due to many of their decisions over the last 10+ years, but I agree that lowering the price for AmigaOS4.1FE and making it available for people to run via WinUAE emulation is one of the smartest things they have done in many years, if not the smartest thing they have ever done. Now just about anyone can try AmigaOS4.1 and decide for themselves if it is something they want to continue to use and/or invest further by obtaining dedicated PPC hardware to run it on. It is not quite as good an option (IMHO) as the free 30 minute demo version of MorphOS, to introduce interested users to the platform, but it is 1,000 times better situation than we had before WinUAE added PPC support and users had to buy new or used PPC hardware costing between ~$500 to $3,000+ to run AmigaOS4.x.
My 2 cents.