Flashlab wrote:
bloodline wrote:
A6000 wrote:
O.K, What is needed now, is for someone to write a PPC emulator for the 680X0 processor, it may not be fast, but it could be usable.
It would be in no way usable... unless you like slideshows of desktops...
I doubt that was a serious post...
It started out as a joke, but then I thought, why not?
A CISC processor does more work per instruction than a RISC processor so a JIT emulator could interpret several PPC instructions as one or two 68k instructions.
Also the PPC runs at only 200/400mhz which is not necessarily that much faster than a 68060 running at 66-100mhz.
If OS4 takes off, then the classic fans must either buy a PPC or emulate one.
It would be no good for games, but other future programs which do not depend on speed could be used, maybe?.