Anyone intrested in Amithlon type PS3 Amiga emulator?

[Painkiller]

Well UAE could also be used if it would help the process What puzzles me is that why haven't JIT been implemented to PPC port of UAE? Would it be a huge task?

I really had in mind a complete custom emulator that is able to boot in PS3. Shouldn't it be possible to emulate Amiga custom chips with SPEs etc. That should really make it pretty efficient emulator.

Now back to :sleep:

[Piru]

@Painkiller

I really had in mind a complete custom emulator that is able to boot in PS3

That'd be a massive project, and the end result would likely be inferior to UAE regardless.

Shouldn't it be possible to emulate Amiga custom chips with SPEs etc.

Not really.

Even if it would (in theory you can perform any computational problem on the SPEs too), it wouldn't make any sense. It would be slower than running the emulation with the PPE alone.

SPEs are no replacement for general purpose processor.

[Painkiller]

Well if that is the case then why not focus on JIT for PPC platforms? Then it would be possible to load up a small footprint linux and load UAE that way and have pretty fast emulation. There is already www.xamiga.net with a little modification and working JIT this should be possible to be run on PS3

BTW the guy who is working on X-Amiga is already working on a PPC port. Maybe we could donate a PS3 for him and few other coders to aid him in the job if he wants.

[Piru]

@Painkiller

Well if that is the case then why not focus on JIT for PPC platforms?

I guess everyone is happy running UAE on x86.

[Trev]

E-UAE on a tight Linux distribution should work, albeit more slowly than on a modern G5.

It's been said by the man himself that the only hurdles to open sourcing Amithlon and his early work on a PPC JIT are serious involvement by a talented programmer and probable drama courtesy of Harald Frank.

Did Petunia ever make it into the wild, or has it been locked into OS4?

Aside: You have to wonder how much of the drama in the Amiga world started out with slight cultural differences, misunderstandings, and misinterpretations. Everything from sarcasm to the definition of intellectual property varies wildly from society to society.

[BooBoo1200]

PPC definitely NEEDS!! Uae JIT not just for projects like running on PS3 but for running on Morph,OS4

But a Amithlon PPC version would also be very cool I know of some cheap PPC hardware;-) id be happy to make this my main OS.
   I thought there very nearly was a PPC Amithlon -What happend to it?

[Trev]

I think legal confusion over who owned what and a lack of consensus on how to move forward killed everything to do with Amithlon/Umilator. No single party appears to have clearly understood the intentions of the others.

[BooBoo1200]

Umisef over at AmigaWorld said he had umilator and 68k>PPC>JIT on his HD if anyone was seriously intrested -work is needed.
  So I would think its possible and this 68k>PPC>JIT source shouldnt go to waste.