Re: The best way to upgrade your IIGS

[Lim <limtc@imedia.com.sg>]

Supertimer wrote:

> Not if you have slot cards you want to keep.  ;-)

I didn't.

Actually, I do, they are: Zip GS, PC Transporter GS, but both useless
to me now.
 
> Regarding the speed...isn't it true that unless your PowerMac is
> above 150Mhz, you can forget about perfect "N-sonic" emulation?

I used to run it in Performa 5200, the slowest PowerPC computer
(Macbench = 100, the same as 6100/66). It runs Bernie with stereo
sound at about the same speed as a 2.8MHz GS. The only problem is
one of the note in Arkanoid II is off, but for the rest, it is
fine.

150MHz is a rough guess, since I jump from 5200's 75MHz to 225MHz,
and the speed improvement is... 10x? 50x? simply amazing. 

> Not true...Gemulator on a Pentium II 233Mhz will run rings around
> a real 40Mhz Quadra 68040...that's the target emulation
> computer.

Virtual PC emulates a real Pentium MMX computer - a Pentium, not
386/486. Bernie emulates the real GS - Rom 1 or Rom 3. Gemulator
emulates a Mac which is heavily outdated and cannot run half of
the software. This is different comparison.

> It is real hardware...the emulation will never be the same!

If it looks the same, act the same, as compatible as the original,
use the same 3.5" drive (but better), support all resolutions,
use the same ADB bus (and keyboard and mouse), what's not the same?
You put in a disk, it reads it, even eject have the same IIGS
eject sound. :) Not to mention it runs at the same speed or
faster.

This reminds me of a very long arguments of "Apple IIGS is not
Apple II" in this thread long time ago, simply because Apple IIGS
uses a different processor, and not compatible with some Apple II
software. To me, it is the same.

Thye Chean