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03-30-2005, 11:32 AM
Does anyone know of an x86 emulator for WarpOS/PowerUP PPC cards?
Effy
03-30-2005, 11:37 AM
Thatīs a question that has also been flashing through my mind now and then but I always forgot to ask it :lol:
03-30-2005, 11:40 AM
Effy wrote:
Thatīs a question that has also been flashing through my mind now and then but I always forgot to ask it :lol:

I thought maybe the MorphOS port of Bochs may have been ported to WOS/PUP, but yet again google isn't my friend. :-D
Karlos
03-30-2005, 12:44 PM
I've no idea. Apart from the novelty factor, I can't see any reason to emulate x86 given they are so damn cheap to get for real :-)
03-30-2005, 01:34 PM
Karlos wrote:
I've no idea. Apart from the novelty factor, I can't see any reason to emulate x86 given they are so damn cheap to get for real :-)

I want it purely for the novelty factor! :-D

AROS x86 running on an A1200!
lempkee
03-30-2005, 03:29 PM
there is both a x86 and a mac powermac emu for wos , but both is not working on 1200's + the bochs one was so slow it probably never where uploaded to aminet (someone on irc just dealt it out the guys on the chan some years back...)

afaik there is even a 68k port of bochs...
03-30-2005, 04:53 PM
lempkee wrote:
there is both a x86 and a mac powermac emu for wos , but both is not working on 1200's + the bochs one was so slow it probably never where uploaded to aminet (someone on irc just dealt it out the guys on the chan some years back...)

afaik there is even a 68k port of bochs...



You don't happen to know the names of the wos emulators do you?

Powermac would be nice to have.
odin
03-30-2005, 04:57 PM
If by Powermac emu you mean FusionPPC then I'd think again. From what I've heard of it it's as useful as a pile of dogpoo. It was never made to work on BlizzardPPCs and apparently is more of an alpha release than anything resembling what it should considering the pile of money it was sold for.
03-30-2005, 05:15 PM
odin wrote:
If by Powermac emu you mean FusionPPC then I'd think again. From what I've heard of it it's as useful as a pile of dogpoo. It was never made to work on BlizzardPPCs and apparently is more of an alpha release than anything resembling what it should considering the pile of money it was sold for.

How feasible would a port of sheepshaver be? It runs MacOS9 quite speedily on a PC.
Karlos
03-31-2005, 02:54 AM
Hmmm.

Sheepshaver actually emulates the PPC chip and its MMU (which is the real performance hit - without that it would be even faster). Most likely you'd want to avoid that if you have a real PPC processor that you could try a shapeshifter style emulation on.

That said, I can't see OSX running happily on a 603 either way.

Didn't Danamania get a port of sheepshaver working on a real 68040 mac? IIRC it took a week to boot or something :-)
03-31-2005, 03:31 AM
Karlos wrote:
Hmmm.

Sheepshaver actually emulates the PPC chip and its MMU (which is the real performance hit - without that it would be even faster). Most likely you'd want to avoid that if you have a real PPC processor that you could try a shapeshifter style emulation on.

That said, I can't see OSX running happily on a 603 either way.

Didn't Danamania get a port of sheepshaver working on a real 68040 mac? IIRC it took a week to boot or something :-)

I thought the BeOSR4/R5 version virtualized the CPU like Mac-on-Linux/VMWare do?
Karlos
03-31-2005, 04:09 AM
Ah. I dunno, then. When I saw sheepshaver, I just naturally thought of the x86 version :-)
03-31-2005, 04:16 AM
Karlos wrote:
Ah. I dunno, then. When I saw sheepshaver, I just naturally thought of the x86 version :-)

Well, BeOS was *ever so slightly* more successful on x86 than on Hobbit DSP's or PPC Beboxes/Macs. :-D
MskoDestny
03-31-2005, 08:02 PM
Karlos wrote:
Sheepshaver actually emulates the PPC chip and its MMU (which is the real performance hit - without that it would be even faster). Most likely you'd want to avoid that if you have a real PPC processor that you could try a shapeshifter style emulation on.

Sheepshaver only emulates the PPC CPU on non-PPC platforms.


Karlos wrote:
Didn't Danamania get a port of sheepshaver working on a real 68040 mac? IIRC it took a week to boot or something :-)
I'm pretty sure that was with PearPC, but I could be mistaken.
bloodline
04-01-2005, 05:40 AM
MskoDestny wrote:

Karlos wrote:
Didn't Danamania get a port of sheepshaver working on a real 68040 mac? IIRC it took a week to boot or something :-)
I'm pretty sure that was with PearPC, but I could be mistaken.

Yup, it was PearPC :-)


I'd like to run an x86 emu on my BlizzPPC and Bvision too... of course I also want the AROS on my A1200 experience :-D
Karlos
04-01-2005, 06:30 AM
Oh yeah, it was Pear PC. My mistake.