I would/wouldn't like a production run of 060's

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If you get caught with a JIT you get banned from the Apple AppStore.

You can confirm it with thousands of ppl.  You can start by asking every single person who needs a JIT, such as emulator coders.

I'm a credible source and I confirmed it.

Its actually worse than "no JIT" it is/was "no scripting of any kind" and "no dynamically executed code".

You can sell emulators on the Apple AppStore, but you are not allowed to sideload any software on to them... So it either has to come with all the software it's ever going to run... Or you need to sell extra software via an "in app purchase".

There are three problems with running emulators on an iOS device:
1. If the emulator is free open source, it must be free on the AppStore.
2. Most of the software you want to run on the emulator will still be in copyright (or you already own and don't want to buy again).
3. (This is the biggy) The old games just aren't suited to running on a touch screen devices and are often quite awkward to play/use.

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A production run of any 68k is never going to happen, technology has moved on and you are never going to get rights to the IP.

Your options are an FPGA, the A600 Vampire board is already here or (my favourite) an ARM board with an emulator/JIT, with an interface for Plugging into Amiga CPU slots

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I'd like the same but with an x86 rather than ARM just for the raw power and the latest x86 chips probably run cooler than an 040 does.

Regarding the App Store, isn't there a legal problem with GPL apps? I seem to remember VLC having issues.

My money is on ARM long term... But yeah, a x86-64 based JIT accelerator would be three levels of awesome!

Yeah, the AppStore licence changed a couple of years back to allow GPL, I already downloaded VLC so I wasn't affected by its removal, very useful for watching WMVs on my iOS devices. But it is returning now the Licence allows GPL.

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if it was up to me, I'd just port the WinUAE hardware emulation to QEMU, and use QEMU's m68k dynamic-translation (JIT like) which works on any architecture.

Let's focus on AROS first

Hahahah, that does sound like a very cool idea!

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if it was up to me, I'd just port the WinUAE hardware emulation to QEMU, and use QEMU's m68k dynamic-translation (JIT like) which works on any architecture.

Hang on... It's taken me a while but wouldn't this allow you to creat some "interesting" virtual hardware setups... Like an Amiga with an x86 or ARM as a CPU!? -edit- or even something really weird like a PPC!?

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Would it be possible to adapt PearPC? I remember successfully running OSX on that thing but it was really slow. I don't remember what kind of hardware had back then, but it would be interesting to let my i7 have a crack at it now

PearPC emulates a Mac, so if the AOS4 devs want to let their OS run on it it can. I wouldn't be surprised if MOS can already run on it