| [News] Project Petunia FAQ | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 19-Aug-2002 15:25 GMT by Álmos Rajnai | 68 comments
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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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| Comment 1 | Anonymous | | 19-Aug-2002 13:59 GMT |
| Comment 2 | .john | | 19-Aug-2002 14:49 GMT |
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| Project Petunia FAQ : Comment 3 of 68 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by PaulT on 19-Aug-2002 15:04 GMT | Comments directed at the author, but any other constructive comment is invited.
1) As far as it being part of OS4, great! 68K emulation is a must-have feature, obviously. But it seems strange to me that your effort, no matter how brilliant, is being depended on for such an important part of the OS. I can only hope that your wonderful programming accomplishment, done mostly by 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 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.
2) You commented that, speed-wise, 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 or three times as fast as the 040's, but a PPC233 is much 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? (again, this is more of a criticism of Amiga management.) |
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