Re: GS Emulator

[eaiu184@rigel.oac.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)]

In article <2vl1ef$nte@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>,
Edward Brown Shipe <litbisc@wam.umd.edu> wrote:
>     Read the subject.  I just want to know...  On a Mac or PC, do any of
>you think it's even remotely possible?  I mean hey, they emulated a Mac with
>the PPC!  I think that the only real issue, besides how hard it would be, is
>the speed.  On a PPC though, compiled natively, how could it not be fast 
>enough?  If a person who _really_ knows the hardware gives it a shot, I'd
>bet that they can do it.  With a Gravis Ultrasound on the PC, the sound 
>wouldn't be much of a problem, and VGA can handle the graphics.  


Technically, if time, money, and other resources were ignored, then yes,
I think technically it is possible. (What's that quote about an
infinite number of monkeys typing away at an infinite number of
typewriters, and eventually producing the entire works of William
Shakespeare?)

However, I doubt if it came be done in the real world.  Apple had teams
of programmers writing the Mac emulator for the PPC, I doubt it such
organization is even possible, given the state of the GS; even
if every single detail on the GS is made available, both hardware,
software, firmware, rom, etc.  Certainly not a "one-man" project,
even if it's the fabled BurgerBill.  (This, of course, is not a flame on 
the various GS programmers, whom I have the utmost respect for.)

Then again, the Mac-emulator on the PC, Executor, is being written
by a small group of programmers, I think.  Heck, if the PC can
emulate the architecture of the Mac, surely the PPC can emulate
the "lowly" 65816. :-)

Jimmy

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