Re: Apple // emulation contention

[Gabriel Morales <Togega@concentric.net>]

Supertimer wrote:
>
> Bernie is a work of art and certainly the best IIGS emulator ever.
> 
> It is not, however, up the the level of Mac emulation on a PowerMac
> or Apple II emulation on a IIGS.  Those are flawless emulations
> designed from scratch and built into the hardware.

	This is true; I wish I could just double click a GSOS App and work
with it as if it were a Mac program.
> 
> To give you an example, Bernie can't emulate 3200 color mode
> for the simple reason that it is probably impossible to duplicate
> in software the hardware that makes this happen.  So you end
> up with Bernie video that is basically as limited as Second
> Sight SVGA Apple IIGS video card's emulation of the IIGS video
> modes.  Simply put, there is hardware that's missing.  Slots for
> cards are another thing.
> 
> The reason PowerMac emulation of Mac is so flawless and
> IIGS emulation of the IIe is so flawless is that Apple took
> pains to PUT the necessary hardware into the unit.  That's why
> a IIGS is an Apple II and a PowerMac is a Mac even though
> they are both also something more.  A Mac, however, will
> never be fully a IIGS.
> 
> It does not mean emulation is bad, but that it is simply that,
> just emulation...and always a step away from the real thing.

	Nevertheless, isn't it possible, with technology being what
it is today, to condense an Apple IIGS down to an expansion card or two,
and thus providing the hardware- expansion slots & everything- needed to
fully "emulate" an Apple IIGS?
> 
> Otherwise, I'd call a Pentium II with Gemulator running
> MacOS 8 a Macintosh or a PowerMac running SoftWindows
> a Wintel....

	Oh, down with that silliness! The difference with the Apple IIGS is
that, unfortunately, the technology has long ceased to evolve (or at
least, evolved very slowly since), and therefore it is much easier to
emulate it.

Gabriel Morales