Re: PC or Mac?

["Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill" <byron@b60z27hbb464i.ab.hsia.telus.net>]

In article <u5jc11flcubd91@corp.supernews.com>, Matthew Russotto wrote:
> Just ordered myself a new 933Mhz G4 with PowerPC.  No Linux on this
> thing, though -- OS X.
> 
> ObA2: So how fast would an Apple emulator run on it.  How about if it
> was running under Virtual PC?  If it was running under SoftPC on vMac II
> compiled for 68K under classic?

If you are willing to go that far, why not try kegs?  I have no idea
whether it will run on OS X, but it is worth a try (you will need an X
server though).  I find that performance is highly variable with
kegs.  Sometimes it is around 1 MHz effective, other times it is
around 22 MHz effective, or so kegs claims.  The main issues are sound
and the serial port.  AFAIC, these are not a huge issue since I since I
have a real IIgs anyway.  You may, of course, view things differently.

Bernie is another emulator which will run under Mac OS 9 (perhaps even
OS X by this point).  I mucked around with the trial version a little bit
after first buying my G3 (350 MHz, BTW).  It was pretty nice, and seemed
to work much better than kegs in general.  Its only failing is a price
tag.  Since I am not a huge emulator fan, and kegs will do what I want of
it, my choice was easy.

On Virtual PC: I tried it sometime ago (version 2).  Performance was
generally less than appealing.  While the program was probably a heck of
a lot more efficent than kegs, OS/2 and Windows software generally want
the fastest machine available.

Byron.