[News] Project Petunia FAQ | ANN.lu |
Posted on 19-Aug-2002 15:25 GMT by Álmos Rajnai | 68 comments View flat View list |
Project Petunia (AmigaOS4 JIT emulator) pages updated and extended with a FAQ.
Project Petunia pages (the emulator, that will be used in AmigaOS4) updated and extended with a FAQ.
After a long period of checking forums, chatboards and answering e-mails I decided to add a FAQ part into the project page. I hope I can clean up all the important questions arising in you. If something is not clear enough feel free to write a mail.
Project Petunia pages
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Project Petunia FAQ : Comment 19 of 68 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Álmos Rajnai on 20-Aug-2002 06:41 GMT | In reply to Comment 18 (Álmos Rajnai): Ah... My post seems a bit weird w/o az original text, so once again:
> only one person, is not the reason for the delay of the release of OS4 and
> A1. In such a situation more money and programmers should have been put to
> work to move the project forward. This is only a criticism of those who
> are in charge of OS4, not of you! You are showing that even in today's
To tell you the truth: there is no more money, no more resources for
AOS4 development, Amiga Inc. has very limited financial
possibilities.
> world it is possible for a "lone gunman" to make a difference, this is
> great. But Amiga is falling further behind the real world every month.
Hopefully not. Amigans are very excited about AOS4, almost everybody
waiting for it. The rest of the world is rather neutral, you can
probably notice: Apple with far much better financial resources could
not hit Windows and PCs, what could WE do?
Amiga is a hobby machine for a quite long time, and I don't think
that it will significantly change the world. But I love it, as many
others do too.
> 2) You commented that emulating an 060 on PPC233 should be possible. Well,
> when Apple went to PPC in 1994 or so, they had an emulator. On the 60 MHz
> 601 it was somewhat slower than a 68040 Mac. A 50MHz 060 is maybe twice as
> fast as the 040's, but a PPC233 is more than four times as fast as a 601.
> What is my point? That the emulator problem was solved, as far as pure
> 68040 code, in 1994. Why do you have to re-invent the wheel?
Have you ever tried the MacOS 68k emulator? :)
It is much slower than often idealized by Mac fans. It could never
reached the speed of 040/25 on a 603/166.
Besides do you think that Apple would sell the emulator to Amiga
Inc., and AInc. could have the money for it?
Petunia is a lot faster than Apple's emulator, I can guarantee.
(Apple is always employing designers and PR-managers instead of
programmers... Okay, just a joke... Isn't it? ;) |
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