PPC PCI Card working in PC,possible?

[Blinx123]

Thats the same blogg I read before posting this thread here. The blogg writer says the exact opposite of what Piru says.

[Marco]

@Blinx123

Why the fsck would you buy one for your PC in the first place: it's an accelerator for Macs, You know, the computers made by Apple. What did you think PCI bus was exclusive to Wintels or something?

Emulation has NOTHING to do with real hardware, it's a purely software based means of 'tricking' the program you want to run into thinking that your hardware is actually the native hardware of the program. Thus UAE virtually recreates a 68k Amiga in every detail down to the custom chipset.

Likewise an emulator could be designed to virtualise a standard PPC based PC (which is what Neo-Amigas are) but that would again be entirely a software based means of 'fooling' the programs you want to run (in this case games) and the speed of the emulation will as with UAE depend entirely on the specs of your PC, not an old Mac accelerator card.

[Piru]

@Blinx123

The blogg writer says the exact opposite of what Piru says.

No, he doesn't.

He thinks about running the whole OS on such card, the PC itself would be totally dorment and dummy (well using it for any co-processor functionality would add unnecessary complexity, it just wouldn't be sensible IMO). While such idea is surely possible, the fact is that such Crescendo card has very poor performance.

And the fact is that it won't happen by itself. This Crescendo card will not run AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS or AROS by itself.

It certainly has nothing to do with Windows or WinUAE.

[Blinx123]

Oh, then I missinterpreted something. So it´s totaly impossible at the moment, to use the PPC card as FPU (co-processor) under Windows. Isn´t there any other device/card to speed things under Windows up?