Re: IIgs emulation...

[Dan-Yertzell@worldnet.att.net (Dan Yertzell)]

On 29 Nov 1997 20:02:21 GMT, retromod-Apple-II-newsgroups; rm -rf
~;@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Tilghman Lesher) wrote:


>
>The only problem with XGS (at least on the Mac) is that if you've got
>sound turned on with any decent demo, it slows down to a crawl, even
>compared with a real IIGS.
>
>And that's on one of the new Mac G3's (233MHz) !
>
>For example, Modulae is TEN times (10x) faster on an unaccelerated IIGS
>than it is on a 233MHz XGS Mac.
>

Keep in mind that XGS is *far* from finished (version 0.50), and sound
is a very recent addition.  That it works at all at this early stage
is pretty impressive.

>The real answer to the original question is that a IIGS is better than
>an emulator.

For now, yes.  But if you don't have room for multiple computers, and
just want to play the occasional old game to re-live past glories,
then emulators are the only way to go.

In my case, XGS revived my interest so much that I got real IIgs's
again.  Now I have 2, and 1 in my daughter's room for her to play
games on.  My main system is a ROM 03 in a Woz case, has 5 megs ram,
100 meg hard drive, PC Transporter, 6 floppy drives, Appletalk to the
Macs, the Macs are networked to the Windows machines, etc.  

What I really need now is a bigger room!

Dan