PC Emulation

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Jupp3 wrote:
PCx emulates Pentium, but lacks MMX (Which "486-only" PC-Task has)
much likely preventing Windows 95 from working...

Works on PC-Task, but it is quite slow, even on 060...

And about Bochs, afaik, it already IS ported to MorphOS...

Err...
WTF are you rambling about?!? :-?
I dunno about PCx, but PC-task can emulate a 486, which does NOT have the MMX instructions!
Windows 95 can run with as little as a 386 and 4 Mb RAM ( but that's probably even slower than PC-task on my EC030 :-P ), so PC-task would in theory would be enough...

But you're right about BOCHS being the best bet for a PC-emu for the A1. Would be really cool if it was combined with something like WINE, but that's kinda unrealistic...  :-D

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BADHead wrote:
What about PPC Amithlon(PC Emulation) for
the Amiga One -Just a Thought  :-o  :-o  :-o  :-o

Would be an interesting way to run Windows on an OS4 machine... :-D

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Munchkin wrote:

Hammer wrote:
Rent or barrow a late model Power Macintosh with SoftWindows/SoftPC/PPCBochs installed.

PS;
1. I recall SoftWindows may also include a licensed MS Windows source code.
2. I doubt those PC emulators will run DirectX 5 class titles at sufficient frame rates.

I remember a few years ago when I sat working with a powermac G3 with, I think, a 266 Mhz G3.
Don't remember for sure if it was SoftWindows I ran on that one but anyways, Win95 went quite well and I even played GP2 at a decent speed in it! So, it should be quite possible to emulate a PC on an A1 with decent speeds. How about having those who make Softwindows to port it to AOS4

AFAIK, those emulators use JIT compilers with large caches. Shouldn't be that hard to port.
Too bad that I can oly code in Pascal and BASIC!  :-)