PowerPC emulation on x86 possible?

[dammy]

by lempkee on 2003/11/7 9:59:15

why start the plan on killing amigaos before its out? , this is yet another example on how bad everything is if its not on an x86 ..

What are you smoking before you read AO?  This thread is talking about the possibility of PPC being run at a reasonable level on x86 and you automatically see it as a way to kill off OS4?  You must have pretty low expectations on OS4 if you think this is going to kill it off.

Dammy

[dammy]

by lempkee on 2003/11/7 12:10:59

when people starts a thread like this , just when things starts to look better, well its just like amithlon in 2001, it made people LEAVE! and they wont come back ..why? because they belive os4 will be emulated asap because of a thread like this, and everyone knows that by emulating a ppc will make the x86 even more popular and especially WINDOWS! .

Dude, your really Windowsphobic.  If you really think that people will chose x86 (I'd say 95% of us already own atleast one x86 already) over PPC , that tells me two things.

1. x86 is that much superior to PPC, people will conceed to this if they use it (like they don't use it already).

2. The software and OS that is available to PPC is that inferior to those on x86.

If either of those two are true,  any PPC platform and those OSs tied to PPC platforms are DOA because they can not compete.

well its just so typical, we have an excuse not to jump ship and then people make uae the same, soon there will be wos and pup support, soon it will have nova, soon it will have morphos...

I'm still trying to figure out who "we" is that your referring to.  Is it the few hundred people that have not bought a x86 already that still like/love the Amiga?  If so, more power to you but your limiting yourself and you should respect other's choices as they do yours.   If people want to try to code  a good PPC JIT for x86, more power to them as more choices are better then a single choice which isn't really a choice.  If you want to buy a Peg or a A1, more power to you.   I don't see the x86 guys jumping up and down about a x86 JIT for PPC, nor would I expect to see them to do so.  

anyway X86 = windows , linux = geek , amiga = emulators , beos died and became an x86 os which is kinda nice but i think that only because it DIED or heh..the ppc plattform around it.

Be died because of management snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.  Be management decided to go IABe which they can no clue on how to do a STB OS and alienated the Be Devs.  Sure reciepe for distaster, which happened.  If anything, BeOS exploded in popularity (compared to when it was PPC only) when it went x86 because it allowed so many more devs to pitch in an code without having to buy some exotic (and expensive) BeBox.   Again, Be went with giving people choices, and until their management got stupid, that choice was working.

Dammy

[dammy]

by minator on 2003/11/8 18:34:53

They didn't have much of a choice, they were held off shipping PCs due to MS licensing so were not going to make anything, they had enough money for a year left so they spent it on BeIA because they thought it might make them something. It didn't, but had they remained on course they would of most likely had the same fate.

This wasn't obvious at the time, the story only came out much later.

If they had maintained their heading instead of swerving into the the illfated IA, I think they could have survived by entering into the audio market niche.  Yeah, M$ screwed them by putting preasure on the OEM not to dual boot Be with Windbloat.  From what I remember and read on the audio software that was in the pipeline, they could have survived in the audio niche market.

Dammy

[dammy]

by GPT on 2003/11/9 13:00:51

Why use any emulation of a processor?

Because it's MUCH cheaper to do so?

Dammy