Poll: what do you think about PPC emulation in WinUAE?

[OlafS3]

I could not find an an option in the poll that suits me:

I believe that PPC emulation in WinUAE will benefit OS4 (increased sales and user base) but will heavily damage AmigaOne PPC hardware vendors and their partners (A-EON, ACube and Amigakit). And this last issue is not a bad thing, as they will certainly have to redesign their business propositions in this respect (get competitive or die).

Regarding Acube you are wrong if you think they would propably lower prices for their hardware because of PPC emulation

Look at their page:
http://www.acube-systems.biz/index.php?page=company

their slogan is: "Power for your embedded ideas" and then look at their partners. Hyperion certainly is neither the biggest nor most important one. They propably earn their money selling PPC hardware for industrial purposes with Linux (and other OSs) installed or do you think that the handful amiga fans make their living? So why should they lower prices then?

[OlafS3]

WinUAE pretty much killed Amiga accelerator market. Suddenly it was not required to invest thousands to get decently fast Amiga.

You mean without UAE people would have bought the very expensive accellerators? I can only speak for myself, without UAE and only have the choice to buy extremely expensive hardware I would not have started again.

And the accellerators would have been too expensive, amiga user always had to pay more for the same than on other platforms

you could say the non-working "milk a shrinking market" strategy

[OlafS3]

I guess Amiga (accelerator) market was already dead by the time WinUAE reached this speed.

Usually, emulators have no impact since new machines that are many times faster get released and new software get written for it.

The problem with the Amiga is that the new machines aren't that fast, and people tend to not update (because it's expensive, there are little to no software written for it).

In this case, emulation could be seen as a problem. But seriously: there are so few people using Amiga today, does it really make a difference ?

he talked about the past...

But even if, the main problem for a long time regarding commercial projects is that you cannot earn money or better you can earn more on other platforms. When I digged around in aminet for my distribution it became obvious that there was a lot of 68k activity till around 1997/1998 then it went down considerably. The last updates for commercial software were about 2000. If activity went down 1997/1998 I assume that this was both the case for users and developers. So in this atmosphere of a rapidly shrinking user base no commercial orientated developer or company would invest time and money and the "hobby" projects that are only based on idealism often fail without any hope to make money with it. Developing is time consuming and on hardware even expensive.

Short conclusion: I think WinUAE has saved the remainders, the damage was already there

Why is all closed? Why are some people bashing each other or talking bad about others instead of working together? I do not know. And I think it will not change. The platforms are like trains that are driving in different directions so it is best to decide for one and jump on the waggon.