Re: Apple ][ emulators on Mac

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <1fo7mhz.9qjvsz11v4e1iN%northstar2010@_del-ete_yahoo.no>,
Hallvard Tangeraas <northstar2010@_del-ete_yahoo.no> wrote:
 
> My very first computer was an Apple ][+ clone which I built myself back
> in 1983 while living in Hong Kong (asian clones of the Apple ][+ were
> very popular at the time, and cost a fraction of the original's price),
> but don't have that computer within access, so I'd like to emulate it on
> my Apple Mac instead (PowerMac 9600 with a 336 MHz G3 upgrade card on
> MacOS 9.1).
 
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> -"IIe" is definitely the one which is easiest to figure out and works
> the best, but has choppy sound. With a 336MHz G3 processor I would think
> that emulating a 1MHz 6502 processor wouldn't be a problem, so that
> can't be the cause of it....
 
It wouldn't be a problem if that G3 processor ran a single-tasking OS
or a real-time OS, but I strongly suspect Mac-OS is neither of these... <g>
Even on that processor, you don't switch tasks within one microsecond.
 
Trying to run time critical code on a multitasking OS can mean some
quite specific problems.
 
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