Is It Emulation or Not -- the Dilemma

[CritAnime]

How do you mean? Are you talking about running software in an emulated environment or talking about running that software natively on the hardware?
 
If your talking about running software natively then it's not emulation as your doing it without any external support. so long as there is a version of the language for the target platform it's all good. Otherwise you would need to port it to a language supported by the target platform.
 
This is a simplified version so don't shoot me if you feel this is inacruate. but I am on my 5th night shift and I can't be bothered now lol.

[CritAnime]

Hi mate are you having some fun with your Stealth Accelerator

It's fun. Makes things zip along until you run into a game that refuses to work properly because of it lol. But then I have a switch that dissables it so no biggie.
 

So, by "natively," you mean PPC opcodes only running on a PPC system.
Yep, that's native.
68k opcodes running on a PPC? There's some level of emulation.
 
Now, as I've said, if it's done well, it doesn't matter what it's called.
It's very kual. I just think it's very kual emulation. ;-)
 
desiv

I suppose natively was the wrong wording. I perceived it that he was wanting to run things that seemed both hardware and OS agnostic. Kind of cross platform stuff. Kind of like how we have several languages that are cross platform.
 
However, like you stated, if he is wanting to run something that was intended for a 68k system on say x64 hardware then yes a layer of emulation would be be needed. Kind of like when Apple went from OS9 to OSX and they had that compatability layer which was a emulated version of OS9.