PCTask vs PCx vs Emplant e586 what is the best PeeCee emulator

[OlafS3]

Today, its just for nostalgia.  It's not fast enough (even on a Vampire) for any serious work.  It runs Windows 3.1 just fine, and probably could run Windows 95... but that's it.  Later versions of Windows expected newer architecture and won't run.

That's not true.  I don't make promises about software.  I was stating what was planned.  We did work on a PPC version of PCx briefly, and a version of PCx was released for the Mac and PowerMac.  When iFUSION was sold to Blittersoft (along with source code, etc.) I completely abandoned PPC.  I think it's the worst CPU ever made.  IBM conned Apple into using it originally, and they finally got smart and switched to something much faster.  I was stunned when I heard that the next generation Amiga was going to be PPC based.  What a mistake that was.  That limited the sheer number of people who could have been exposed to the great Amiga OS.  Had the next generation Amiga gone x86 based, it would be at least (if not more so) popular as Linux is today.

from a logical point of view you are right. I had switched to X86 PC at that time already (some time after Commodore went bankrupt) and many others had too. But the die hard fans left were not ready for that switch propably. Look how the die hards even today react, from a person outside it looks pretty strange. So from logical and economic point of view, and looking back yes the switch to X86 should have happened but PPC propably was easier to sell to what was left of the amiga community at that time. And there was a lot of propaganda and illusions at that time, RISC was hip and the CISC chips from INTEL and other companies were on demise if you believed what was told everywhere. History of course tells something different...

[OlafS3]

@Dandy

Yes RISC in general and PPC in special was very much hyped at that time. I rebought all the old magazines of the most popular amiga magazine at that time and there was only future is PPC, future is PPC, RISC is future, CISC is past and so on, not even any discussion about what is the better route.