Re: PowerPC GS?

[thoang@orion.oac.uci.edu (Trangdaithi Hoang)]

In article <bran0097.784957345@maroon.tc.umn.edu>,
Kathleen Branin <bran0097@maroon.tc.umn.edu> wrote:

>	With the power pc from mac currently, you could probaly write a 
>//gs emulator that would work faster than your current GS, since the thing 
>is basicaly emulating a 486, or 68000 now anyways, i dont think emulating 
>a 65c18 would be all that more above...  video might be a trick though...

I have my doubts that a PowerPC based IIgs emulator can match the
performance of a real stock IIgs.  I have seen the Apple II+ emulator
(STM?) running on a 40 MHz 68040 Mac with 66 MHz PowerPC processor
card and it's a dog.  I think you would need at least the new 110 MHz
PowerMac 8100 to get any decent speed out of the IIgs emulator.  I'm
more interested in an emulator that can at least match the speed of
a Zipped up IIgs running at 14-15 MHz.