MacUAE on PPC no brainer

[Dr_Righteous]

You know, as many of us in the community likely also have a Mac or two running around I was wondering... Is there any particular reason why MacUAE doesn't have a function to allow access to the PPC processor via WarpOS? It just seems to me like that would make sense... Then again, MacUAE doesn't yet have 040 capability either.

Is my thinking off here?

P.S. - Yes, I fully expect a flame for posting this in here... I didn't even think about the emulation section, since I never go there. Blah!

[redrumloa]

Dunno, I never really liked Mac. Probably dates back to the days of the platform wars, Amiga was always superior and then when Amiga died the Mac didn't seem a viable alternative to windows considering the sticker shock. Sure it was more stable but less features and 4 times as expensive. Now OSX is just a extremely bloated linux. :-o

Oh yeah, also Mac has the stigma of the dumbed down platform.

[Dr_Righteous]

Oh no doubt, Macs suck... Mainly because Apple couldn't develop an OS to save their souls... OSX is a step in the right direction, tho I agree it's bloated... BSD actually, not Linux.

Still, I did manage to get my hands on a PM 7600 with a 604e upgrade... It'd be nice to be able to access that chip with MacUAE to get a little more power out of the emulator.

[alx]

Wouldn't that break the multitasking?  (Not to say that MacOS9 or below had decent mulitasking :-) )

[bloodline]

I imagine that there would be problems with MacOS as directly accessing the PPC might cause a whole host of problems due to undocumented "features in the OS". Who knows what WarpOS does to the stack/CPU exceptions/ interupts... etc..

With MacOS X, I imagine would not have so many problems, the BSD kernel is well known and features MP and other such stuff to protect it from WarpOS.

[MarkTime]

ahhh, who cares, whatever works,

you know even if they had to emulate the PPC processor, on a PPC machine thats not going to be killer, cause the endian issues aren't there....although, to be frank, probably there is no one that has emulated a ppc on ppc hardware...I haven't researched that, but most of these guys will build off another's work....no harm in that, the tasks are too big for one person, usually.

but the point being, if there is no place to get started, probably it won't be started.

There were rumors...several rumors last year, that someone was going to do a warpos capable version of MacUAE.....something that could even run OS 4.

But....near as I can tell, it was rumor and nothing more.

[heimert]

@redrumloa

Now OSX is just a extremely bloated linux

Is it?
Have you ever used OSX?
Feel free to explain what do you mean by saying it´s more bloated than linux? Is it the fact that it actually has a professional GUI and not the terrible X system?
I´ve used OSX for at least 6 months and think it´s fairly good.
What do you think Apple could have done different?