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Offline motorollinTopic starter

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Q
« on: January 07, 2006, 12:08:27 PM »
Q is a virtual machine for MacOSX. It has the ability to simulate a PowerPC machine.

Not wanting to start a flame war here, but I would love to see MorphOS or OS4 ported to run inside this. Not being a programmer, I have no idea what would be involved in this. Probably more work than I could imagine. But it's a nice pipe dream :-)

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Re: Q
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2006, 12:54:08 PM »
Umm, what?

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Re: Q
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2006, 12:59:12 PM »
Heh, yeah good point :-) But unfortunately I can't afford the hardware required for OS4 or MorphOS. Also, I would miss the custom chips if I moved over to AmigaOne/Peg. Heyyyyyy, maybe Dennis' Minimig could be remodelled in to a PCI card so the AmigaOne could use the Minimig's 68k processor, Paula etc, for playing old games!!!

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Re: Q
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2006, 01:00:35 PM »
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Aaww, I thought this was a Star Trek thread .

Sorry, we're not discussing the Continuum :-)

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Re: Q
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2006, 01:30:12 PM »
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nasty wrote:
Its been that long since I've read anything about OS4, I forgot what the requirements are :crazy: is'nt it just a PPC thats required :-?

No, it will only run on an AmigaOne. MorphOS runs on Pegasos or Classic Amigas with PPC cards.

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I have been sitting for awhile thinking about a replacement for the PC (Amigaone and Mac) but I do have alot of favourite games and other software, I do like on the PC but if I'm picking this Q up right then it will be able to emulate a PC well windows atleast. So I better head off and read abit more about Q.

Yes Q will allow you to emulate an x86 computer and run Windows on it. Probably won't be very good for games, but most apps should run ok.

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Re: Q
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2006, 01:48:38 PM »
What's Gorky17?

Unless a reasonably priced OS4 solution is available, I also will be sticking with my A1200. It does everything I need it to at the moment.

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Re: Q
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2006, 01:53:25 PM »
Cool! Looks like a pretty good game. The screenshots show it running on what would appear to be OS4.

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Re: Q
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2006, 01:56:46 PM »
No, wait 8 years for the Amiga conversion and pay 4 times the price for it... :lol:

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Re: Q
« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2006, 04:31:59 PM »
FYI, you can also run AROS inside Q :-)

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Re: Q
« Reply #9 on: January 07, 2006, 08:12:46 PM »
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koaftder wrote:
it doesnt simulate a ppc, it's an x86 emulator.

Actually it simulates PPC as well.



The reason for running inside a simulation is so that you don't have to overwrite the existing OS, or write a bootloader to select from multiple OSes. But you are correct Tomas, it could potentially run natively on the Mac.

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Re: Q
« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2006, 09:15:48 AM »
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koaftder wrote:
Man, sorry for the comment i made earlier.

No problem :-)

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Ive been looking for a ppc emulator for a while now. Ive even looked at QEmu before, and didnt notice that it did more than x86! Thanks for pointing that out.

I don't think it's an emulator. On the Mac it probably uses the real PPC processor (like how VMWare on x86 uses the real x86 processor rather than emulating one). I don't think the x86 version of QEmu supports PPC simulation.

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A friend of mine and i are writting a simple kernel for the ppc arch. I know that pear pc can run ppc code, but it seems pretty centered on running OSX and we dont want to use a simulator that focuses on pretty much one OS. Looks like i'll be trying that app out

PearPC is a PPC emulator. In theory, I think, it should be able to run any PPC OS, so your kernel should run just fine (assuming PearPC's emulation is accurate).

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