UltimatePPC and everything else

[commodorejohn]

call me boring or stupid if you like, but if someone ported to http://www.reghardware.com/2012/05/22/chip_maker_via_outs_49_dollar_raspberry_pi_alike/ ... they would actually have a chance to sell more then a dozen copies... (and it would run faster)

An 800MHz ARM running PowerPC software in emulation is going to outperform an actual PowerPC running at 1.1GHz? Hell, they even have the same speed memory, it's not like the PPC accelerator is going to be cache-starved or anything. (Admittedly, anything on the Zorro III bus is going to be a bottleneck, but I still can't see general execution speed being outperformed by a slower chip running an emulator.)

[commodorejohn]

I'm not convinced there is a limit, the accelerator slot must have a 32bit bus. There are however limitations in kickstart for memory sizing, but you don't need to use that.

Unless it multiplexes address and data, 32 data lines does not necessarily imply 32 address lines...

[commodorejohn]

Besides nobody plays MP3's anymore, streaming is the new MP3 hoarding so there is no need for PPC muscle and buggy NG Amiga OS that never leaves beta.

Haha what. *eyes the 52GB of MP3s sitting in c:\music*

And seriously, "muscle?" You can play MP3s on an 040 for God's sake. A G3 Mac can do high bitrates without breaking a sweat.

[commodorejohn]

heh, I didn't say emulate, I said port Me bad, I should have been more complete tbh: I mean, port UAE + OS4 to the ARM on a PI, then run 68k emulated + newer code native and forget about the dead-end ppc.

More importantly, how many ££££ for the ppc versus ££ for the PI ? even people wanting to have a laugh could afford it.

Oh, no argument about the pricing. But even if you port the OS, any software that you can't recompile for ARM is going to have to be emulated.

[commodorejohn]

I prefer flac, actually.

As do I, but dang, man, I ain't made of disk space! I reserve FLAC pretty much for my own audio projects and archival of works that would be hard to re-obtain.