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Offline bbond007

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Re: 68K Access Under OS4
« on: February 08, 2012, 01:58:19 AM »
Quote from: nyteschayde;679650
Is it possible to access the 68K processor from OS4 just like we were once able to access the PPC from OS3.x? Basically RunInUAE is a great idea but is more or less completely unusable under OS4 Classic (at least with my BlizPPC).

It kills me I have a 68060 sitting there dreaming while the 603e struggles to emulate a 68K for E-UAE. Any chance of passing through to the real 68K (ala ShapeShifter for MacOS, etc...)


It might be possible but there are a few things you may need to consider.

Shapeshifter is not emulating the MAC's video hardware in the same sense that UAE emulates the every detail of the Amiga's chipset. Apple has an abstraction layer on the hardware (QuickDraw) and Shapeshifter patches into that.

The slowness with UAE may not even be the CPU emulation anyway. The bottleneck is far more likely emulating the custom chipset.

Finally, the architecture of UAE. For example the custom chip emulation may require hooks into the CPU emulation.