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Re: PC Emulation on A1?
« on: January 15, 2003, 04:08:15 PM »
You didn't ask, per se, but most people are wondering the same thing, can you run PC games....

Short answer is 'NO', even the fastest Mac, running a very mature highly optimized accelerator like Virtual PC, cannot run the latest PC 3D games......2D games, if they are spec'd low enough will work, but if it required hardware 3d acceleration, in general, you can forget about it....no modern 3d games will work at playable speeds.  

Thats on a Mac, and on the Amiga, the situation is even worse, with less optimized emulators, and even less likely someone would right the native 3d driver to emulated machine drive interface that you would need to get 3d acceleration working in the emulated box.

And on the amiga where the native 3d stuff is likely only a subset, not a superset of what the emulated machines 3d driver...well, a lot has to change before getting 3d accelerated games (even of the Mac variety) to work on Amiga hardware.
 

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Re: PC Emulation on A1?
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2003, 03:05:15 AM »
Hey I'm in nashville too.....anyway its been covered before, but Windows NT on PPC, is not Windows NT on x86....your regular x86 applications are not going to work, the company would have had to release a PPC version of the software.

This was true for most versions of NT, except for the Alpha version, DEC included a really nice x86 to alpha instruction set converter...I don't know, call it emulation, whatever, but it worked.

I would mostly want pc compatibility to play games and no solution like that is evident, except buying one of those $200 dollar pc's and a kvm switch.