To buy or not to buy...

[alexh]

bloodline wrote:
It's a shame Phase5 even put a 68k on the board at all... Instead, it would have been better if they had just run a 68k Emulator as a task on the PowerUP kernel and run AmigaOS in emulation.

It's cos all classic games and demo's which banged the hardware directly would not have worked.

It was the best and only call to make back then.

Note: It is still true today. AFAIK OS4 cannot run the majority of classic games, demos, WHDload etc. because the 68k CPU is completely disabled and the 68k emulator doesn't interact with the classic hardware to the level needed. A reboot to OS3.x is required :-(

[alexh]

bloodline wrote:
But those Games/Demos would run fine on the 68020 already in the A1200... Just disable the PPC card when you don't need the CPU power.

It means you have to reboot, run the game or demo and then reboot. Not very user friendly.

-D- wrote:
F.e, a lot of demos run much better because of the 68k emulation (faster than any real 68k as I understand it), yet they still have access to the AGA chipset.

Is that true? I know that Trance (the MorphOS 68k emulator) can be faster than a regular 68k but do the majority of games and demos even run with it?

I dont know, I dont have a PPC.

The demo you mention is a very late demo, 2006, and may have been written with MorphOS in mind. Not that I am saying it was... it just might have been.

Curious.

[alexh]

motorollin wrote:
iPhone contract

What's that? ;-)