Re: GS Emulator

[ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)]

Richard King (tombo@mail.on-line.co.uk) wrote:
: Well, as I said in a posting some months ago, the bastards (excuse my
: language) have won. They've managed to persuade even sane people to
: consider their ridiculous PutterMac as a possible 'successor' to the
: immaculate GS. Yeah - we all want to run an emulator, behind multiple
: layers of undocumented support-code, rather than the real thing. Not me,
: I'm proud to say. I still can see the difference between talking to the
: real silicon, and somebody's overly-complex 'emulation'. I just wish you
: lot could, too, and weren't being blinded by the hype.

The PowerMac in not actually a Mac. It is just a RISC machine running Mac
emulation by DEFAULT. Apple just chose to call it Mac so that Mac people will
think that it is a successor of Mac, that's all.

If there is a GS emulator, then it is just PowerGS. Of course I don't mind
running the Mac and GS emulator together. And with SoftWindows, this will be
a good machine for us.

Of course we all know that it is very difficult to write a GS emulator for
Power PC. But this is a better way than say creating a new computer such as
Avatar which runs nothing but the GS software. And as the software, it can
be cheaper too.

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: Obey little, question much - Walt Whitman | The only thing my GS hasn't
: Specialisation is for ants - Lazarus Long | got is a go-faster stripe.
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