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[Forum] G4 EmulatorANN.lu
Posted on 14-Oct-2004 15:51 GMT by Kalmar18 comments
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CherryOS is a G4 Emulator giving you the option to use OSX on your PC.

http://www.cherryos.com/

I wonder...
G4 Emulator : Comment 1 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by hooligan/dcs on 14-Oct-2004 14:31 GMT
Bet my left nut its a fake =)
G4 Emulator : Comment 2 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 14-Oct-2004 14:37 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (hooligan/dcs):
If it's not fake then it will be wery slow. I think there was news about ppc emulator year ago or something like that, but it was slow like hell. And I think it emulated 601, 603 or something like that, G4 is much more complex.

I aggree, I would be surprised if this is not a fake.
G4 Emulator : Comment 3 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Senex on 14-Oct-2004 15:12 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Anonymous):
I'd expect a fake as well. In the Wired article they claim 80% speed...
G4 Emulator : Comment 4 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 14-Oct-2004 15:13 GMT
Is it better than Amithlon?
G4 Emulator : Comment 5 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 14-Oct-2004 15:57 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Anonymous):
erm.... have you never used PearPC? http://pearpc.sf.net

OS9 is very fast on my 1GB RAM Athlon64 3200+ running on 64bit linux, and OSX is usuable, but not very responsive.

Sheepshaver emulates PPC MacOS upto OS9 too on BeOS and Linux.
G4 Emulator : Comment 6 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by agima on 14-Oct-2004 17:11 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Anonymous):
People just have a tendancy to believe just about anything is impossible unless they actually see it. It's been that way all through out history. Inventors are always mocked and laughed at until their inventions are finally seen by people and proven to work.

In the Amiga community it is no different. There are hundreds of things people have said are Impossible on the Amiga, but weren't. From people saying UAE would never usable to Parallel port ZIP drives not working on the Amiga. As we all know, UAE is now faster than any 68k Amiga could EVER dream to be. Things like the Parallel port ZIP drives were made to work not too long after they came out.

I hardly think that emulating a PPC chip at acceptable speeds will be "impossible".
G4 Emulator : Comment 7 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by deeq/RNO on 14-Oct-2004 17:13 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (hooligan/dcs):
I bet your right nut it's fake =)
G4 Emulator : Comment 8 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Joe on 14-Oct-2004 18:50 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (agima):
Anything is possible (excluding Amiga Inc (rebadged as KMOS) to deliver t-shirts).
G4 Emulator : Comment 9 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by corpse on 14-Oct-2004 19:02 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Senex):
"I'd expect a fake as well. In the Wired article they claim 80% speed..."

Apparently emulating the PPC isn't as hard as first thought; It's just no one could be bothered up until now, I still doubt there's anything that Mac OS can offer that a native os couldn't. I suspect that the current "cool" factor Mac OSX has is driving the move for useful PPC emulators opposed to development PPC emulators.

Seems like a waste of time to me ...
G4 Emulator : Comment 10 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by John Block on 14-Oct-2004 19:46 GMT
>80% speed

Questionable how noticable that 20% loss would be where serious number crunching is not required.
G4 Emulator : Comment 11 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Juan Carlos Marcos Rodríguez on 15-Oct-2004 06:24 GMT
Does the "VNC" tray icon, as seen in the first screeshot from their web page, mean something?
G4 Emulator : Comment 12 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 15-Oct-2004 07:10 GMT
80% ?? Well even if that would be possible, I really don't believe that includes AltiVec.
G4 Emulator : Comment 13 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 15-Oct-2004 16:35 GMT
G4'Altivec is about 7 time faster than Intel CPU (using vectorial unit as well)
and 4 times faster than AMD (vec too) at the same frequency.

So don't dream to much. Also AltiVec register are 128bit width and SSE2 only 64...
G4 Emulator : Comment 14 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by John Block on 15-Oct-2004 18:39 GMT
In reply to Comment 11 (Juan Carlos Marcos Rodríguez):
VNC is software for accessing another computer over a network.
G4 Emulator : Comment 15 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by coldfire on 16-Oct-2004 23:52 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (corpse):
I've seen Amiga emulators on 2ghz systems that struggled at times to fully emulate 040 amiga speed. To emulate a ppc system that is several orders of magnitude more sophisticated? I'm not saying it can't be done, just that I'd have to see it to believe it.

coldfire
G4 Emulator : Comment 16 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by hammer on 17-Oct-2004 20:26 GMT
In reply to Comment 13 (Anonymous):
Actually, 3DNow(recycles X87 registers) is 64bit wide, while SSE2 (XMM registers) 128bit wide. Software such as RC5 uses vector instruction such as vector rotate. Such instructions doesn’t exist in X86 land i.e. it has to use scalar version. One of the reasons why AMD preform better than PIV in RC5 is due to 3 integer scalar pipelines.

As indicated via SSE -> SSE2 -> SSE3 evolution, X86/X64’s SIMDs are currently under construction i.e. adding vector instructions. Generally, X86 world targets desktop world usage.
G4 Emulator : Comment 17 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by hammer on 17-Oct-2004 20:33 GMT
In reply to Comment 15 (coldfire):
Running PPC Linux on PearPC 0.4pre is fast enough but MacOS X is usable (needs HW accelerated GPU for MacOS X graphical effects).
G4 Emulator : Comment 18 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 19-Oct-2004 01:46 GMT
Looks like it's just a ripoff of pearpc:

http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/04/10/18/2137253.shtml?tid=179&tid=3
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