Rebirth of Umilator???

[Hammer]

@Ivan

I've always disliked emulation in general because it is always faced with incompatability limitations to the real thing. This is not to say i hate Umilator and Bernie. I don't. In fact i hope he walks away from all the garbage he's had to put up with, with a few quid in his pocket. It would only be fair.

Note that AmigaOS 4.0 does have a 68k emulation feature since PPC is an entirely different family compared to 68k series.

PS; I recall Bernie has the license from Amiga Inc.

Regardless what happens, the AmigaOS has to migrate to another CPU family (forced by Motorola's decision for abandoning the 68k in regards to desktop computing segment leadership).

[Hammer]

I never forgot it. There are alot of 68k based binarys out there so some form of emulator is needed to support them. In a perfect world, all those coders would pull out thier sources and do PPC compiles of thier SW.

This is not a perfect world....

I think the major apps will be PPC anyway. And under OS4 with all the new features added. It's easy to forget that the OS is just expanded and execSG is just an extended exec68k for PPC. I expect that even with 68k emulation for the PPC that there will be some problems with some apps because of the new OS features. It happens in EVERY os change. But hey, at least were not re-wrapping a linux or QNX kernal and calling it AmigaOS or Amiga Set Top Box. (a la Gateway)

Then again, there was this thing called Amiga DE.

My post was about "your emulation remarks".

My view was to have a near Amiga OS 5.0’s ideal i.e. virtual processor under 68k JIT emulation, instead of Tao’s VP. There’s nothing wrong with PPC and X86 in terms of coexisting within a particular market place.

The problem with PPC BeOS and X86 BeOS (and also others**) is that, it doesn’t have common CPU layer for common binary execution.

**other multi-platform OSes
- PPC Linux vs X86 Linux,
- PPC BSD vs X86 BSD,