Re: Disk ][ Launcher (was: Late night musings...)

[jefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

rder@pro-palmtree.cts.com (Richard Der) wrote:

>Don't flame me, I just want to ask a question (if I knew the correct
>answer I would not be asking).
> 
>Would an Apple II emulator running on an Apple IIGS have an advantage
>in that a real 65816 is present? I've noticed that Mac emulators on
>the Amiga don't have much of a performance hit. They seem to consist
>of an image of the Mac ROMs (or the real ROMs in hardware, some
>work with either), and use the actual 680x0 to crunch program code,
>with some fancy programming to reroute Mac hardware accesses to
>Amiga hardware access. The Amiga series is are 680x0 based computers.

This is one of the reasons that I firmly believe it can be done.  The
more code that can be handled by the 65816 itself, the faster the
emulator will work.  All that the emulator programs must do is control
the flow of that code and route all the special accesses to the
correct places.  Please keep in mind that this is an over
simplification and know that this is quite a task.