Re: Question regarding using Apple IIgs emulation on OSX

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com>]

In article <9ujre.10947$rt3.8127@fe03.lga>,
 John <johnw_94020@yahoo.comPDA> wrote:

> I am running Bernie the Rescue on my ibook G4 running Tiger.  Bernie 
> often complains about my monitor settings being in millions and asks 
> me to change them to 256. Should I?  I have played games on millions 
> and 256 color mode and notice little difference.   

On some machines, switching to 256 colors is palpably faster.

> Also my second problem is that it appears that some IIgs apps (Number 
> munchers for one) seem to be somewhat sluggish when running them in 
> Bernie. How can I fix this?

Switch to 256 colors?

> I believe that Apple IIgs emulation will be slower on my new ibook 
> G4,than what it used to be on my old Performa 6360, as Tiger seems to 
> emulate the old Mac OS, as no native OSX version of Bernie exists. On 
> the Performa this was not the case as Bernie was running natively.  
> Its strange why a 300 mhz G3 Mac with a expansion upgrade card CPU, 
> can be faster than a 1.6/1.2? ghz G4 Mac.

Why not try it and see? In my experience, Bernie is faster on the G4 
despite emulation. Remember, Classic is just re-hosting a single 
threaded OS, not emulating another processor entirely.

You can also try KEGS <http://kegs.sourceforge.net> or KEGS-OSX 
<http://www.casags.net/> while waiting for the next Bernie.

-- 
John
jmatthews at wright dot edu
www dot wright dot edu/~john.matthews/