os 4.0

[A6000]

O.K, What is needed now, is for someone to write a PPC emulator for the 680X0 processor, it may not be fast, but it could be usable.

[A6000]

Flashlab wrote:

bloodline wrote:

A6000 wrote:
O.K, What is needed now, is for someone to write a PPC emulator for the 680X0 processor, it may not be fast, but it could be usable.

It would be in no way usable... unless you like slideshows of desktops...

I doubt that was a serious post...

It started out as a joke, but then I thought, why not?

A CISC processor does more work per instruction than a RISC processor so a JIT emulator could interpret several PPC instructions as one or two 68k instructions.
Also the PPC runs at only 200/400mhz which is not necessarily that much faster than a 68060 running at 66-100mhz.
If OS4 takes off, then the classic fans must either buy a PPC or emulate one.

It would be no good for games, but other future programs which do not depend on speed could be used, maybe?.

[A6000]

There are many people who are quite happy with the speed of their 7mhz 68000, there could be people with 060's who would be happy to emulate a slow PPC if it means their classic amiga can run new software written for the PPC.

[A6000]

OK, I accept that it is absolutely impossible to emulate a PPC on a 68060, so if no company makes new PPC accelerators then we must resign ourselves to eventually having no choice but to run amiga anywhere, if it will run on classic amiga's.

[A6000]

If we want to run OS4 on a pc we would use pearpc or similar, would the pc also need to run windows or linux?