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PPC PCI Card working in PC,possible?
« on: July 24, 2006, 04:33:49 PM »
Hi guys,
I found some PPC cards using the PCI interface (SharkPPC for example), so my question is: would it be possible to use such a card in my standard x86 PC?
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Re: PPC PCI Card working in PC,possible?
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2006, 04:51:25 PM »
Cool. So could I play AMIGA PPC Games with it? I mean under WinUAE.

PS: I can´t find a PPC PCI card specialy for PC. Which company does make one?
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Re: PPC PCI Card working in PC,possible?
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2006, 05:02:46 PM »
Not? I thought so because it´s PPC and if I install the drivers it should be located in AMIGA OS as PPC.
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Re: PPC PCI Card working in PC,possible?
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2006, 05:13:02 PM »
I know. But if a driver for WinUAE is written it should work. And as I know, AMIGA OS 3.9 supports POWERUP (PPC) hardware.
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Re: PPC PCI Card working in PC,possible?
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2006, 05:20:37 PM »
But when WinUAE would get PPC emulation a PPC card would speed things up, am I right?
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Re: PPC PCI Card working in PC,possible?
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2006, 05:28:17 PM »
Oh man, so why buy one, then? If it doesn´t make a change in speed and doesn´t make things more compatible it´s worthless.
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Re: PPC PCI Card working in PC,possible?
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2006, 05:37:10 PM »
Thats the same blogg I read before posting this thread here. The blogg writer says the exact opposite of what Piru says.
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Re: PPC PCI Card working in PC,possible?
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2006, 02:29:03 PM »
Oh, then I missinterpreted something. So it´s totaly impossible at the moment, to use the PPC card as FPU (co-processor) under Windows. Isn´t there any other device/card to speed things under Windows up?
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