PC Emulation

[redrumloa]

Egad my eyes feel dirty after reading these comments, I need to wash them out with soap! :-P

Wintendo emulation in IS4? Baah :-o

hehe jk.

[trgse]

the first pentium to offer MMX was the 133 MHz version
(developer versions could probably be had with MMX at lower
clockfrequency -read prototypes-) but it was first with
the 166 MHz Pentium it was made as standard on the pentium
and there were several win95 machines running on 133-

(not to forget some dinky toy laptops from HP which only had
a petty 486, but actually ran pretty nimbly on it, unless you
installed the full-installation)

and yes... windows95 does run on pctask at a faster pace than
for instance windows 3.11 WG.

with regard to bochs... boch's is slower on a G4 mac
than pctask is on a 68040. forget about bochs for the forseable
future.

:-o :-) ;-)

[Jupp3]

Sorry, recalled wrong, but some Windows problems were coused by PCx's lack of MMX emulation...

It was just that, Windows recognized (emulated) computer as Pentium class, and of course assumed, it has MMX...

Or that's what I think, coused the problems...

Oh, and one PC game worth mentioning, is game called "Skyroads" (It was Shareware, but I think, it's now freely available, you should be able to find at least demo version with Google...)

Anyway, it's 3D VGA game, which runs about perfectly at least on my 060. If you do NOT believe, find it and give it a try, not big, less than meg, might even fit on DD floppy

[JurassicCamper]

Now that bernie has given up Amithlon.
How about a new comercial venture for him.
Instead of Amiga Emulated on PC.
What about PC on Amiga or PPCthlon.

I'll buy a copy for sure.

[Felix]

Listen up ppl,

I just tested PCTask on my Pegasos G3,
and it DID work, but i haven't got a diskdrive
or a valid HardDisk or HarddiskFile, when i
have this, i will amuse you with some
speed results!!! :-)))
 
Pegasos RuleZ

[Munchkin]

Hammer wrote:
Rent or barrow a late model Power Macintosh with SoftWindows/SoftPC/PPCBochs installed.

PS;
1. I recall SoftWindows may also include a licensed MS Windows source code.
2. I doubt those PC emulators will run DirectX 5 class titles at sufficient frame rates.

I remember a few years ago when I sat working with a powermac G3 with, I think, a 266 Mhz G3.
Don't remember for sure if it was SoftWindows I ran on that one but anyways, Win95 went quite well and I even played GP2 at a decent speed in it! So, it should be quite possible to emulate a PC on an A1 with decent speeds. How about having those who make Softwindows to port it to AOS4

[whabang]

Munchkin wrote:

Hammer wrote:
Rent or barrow a late model Power Macintosh with SoftWindows/SoftPC/PPCBochs installed.

PS;
1. I recall SoftWindows may also include a licensed MS Windows source code.
2. I doubt those PC emulators will run DirectX 5 class titles at sufficient frame rates.

I remember a few years ago when I sat working with a powermac G3 with, I think, a 266 Mhz G3.
Don't remember for sure if it was SoftWindows I ran on that one but anyways, Win95 went quite well and I even played GP2 at a decent speed in it! So, it should be quite possible to emulate a PC on an A1 with decent speeds. How about having those who make Softwindows to port it to AOS4

AFAIK, those emulators use JIT compilers with large caches. Shouldn't be that hard to port.
Too bad that I can oly code in Pascal and BASIC!  :-)

[jdiffend]

FWIW, a new release of bochs is nearing.
A port of it would be great.  http://bochs.sourceforge.net/release2_0.html

[Nick]

It would be cool if there was a fully native OS4 port of some damn good PC Emulator. Though once we
get the software we want for OS4 this type of thing shouldn`t be required. Still nice though. I
remember getting one of the emulators going years ago. QBASIC never looked so good. :-)

[HotRod]

I think that we should have a descent PC-emulator for nothing else
but to show PC-users that it can be emulated. Why shall they be
able to emulate an Amiga but not the other way around? Maybe
Microcode Solution will release PCx PPC? They've at least mentioned
that they are working on a iFusion release for the new Amigas so
who knows? They wrote this on their ML for... well... a year ago
or something like that. I'd like to see them release a PC-emulators
since they seems to be pretty good at that stuff :-) .