Re: PowerPC GS?

[ballweb@CSOS.ORST.EDU (Brian Ballweber)]

Randy Shackelford (shack@crash.cts.com) wrote:
: So what haapened to Quality's pledge to check into the feasibility of a IIgs
: emulator?

If I remember right, this idea was bounced around csa2.programmer a while
back, and the notion that a mac emulator was much easier to write for a PPC
<due to the way it handles memory, general architecture, whatever> gave a
false idea that a GS emulator should be just as easy...  However, everyone
pointed out, quite correctly, that the GS memory map, ensoniq chip, emulation
of an 8-bit apple II, etc... would make a GS emulator just plain hellish to
write.  In fact, wasnt it this same reasoning that killed the concept of
putting a GS on a card, which is why we now have a IIe on a card instead?
 
- Brian
  Digital Exodus