The great PC-Task thread

[Karlos]

I remember playing with the demo version back when all I had was an 040/AGA. It was fast enough for basic DOS stuff, but little else.

Am I right in thinking only the full version featured a JIT mode?

[Karlos]

For max performance in Dynamic mode you needed at least 4x PC memory  - some 96 MB was enough for 16 MB PC emulation. On 060@50 MHz it was about equivalent to 486@20 MHz. Tomb Raider demo ran 1-5 fps...but Wolfenstein was OK.

I'm intrigued now. I have 256MB on my classic (alas still an 040) and a chunky capable display. Might be fun to see what it is capable of.

[Karlos]

IMHO, it's one of those things that should ultimately have had a PPC version. Emulating an x86 on PPC would certainly have been a lot more effective than doing it on 68K, especially with a JIT implementation.

[Karlos]

Sure but there won't be another version now. This software is now a gift to the community as is, and it's still useful for a lot of things, Word for instance

I took the shapeshifter/macos 7.5.3 route for that when I was back at uni. It was actually quite usable, particularly on RTG.

[Karlos]

I have understood that modern virii and malwares won't even run in a 16 bits environment (including DOS + Win 3.1).

Most modern software won't run in that configuration, period.