PPC Emulators To Debut at MacWorld Tokyo 47
jx100 writes: "I've been following the Mac emulation community for awhile, and, apparently, Mac PPC emulators are about to be unveiled for the PC. Emaculation.com says that Microcode Solutions and Emulators Inc. are planning on showing their emulators at MacWorld Tokyo 2002."
interesting quote. (Score:2, Interesting)
Your scope. So limited. Over a year? Heh.
We've had 040 since 1994 or so.
What's really happened since the first releases of Fusion, Executor and BasiliskII?
I'll tell you what. Color graphics. That's it. That's the big thing. Thats the only 'milestone' that's happened since this whole 68k mac emulation thing began. Oh okay and the ability to run a shitty 040 at the equivalent of a 68040-9000mhz. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo.
Up to now, what we've had has been a few useless toys that let us run Claris Works, Photoshop 3.0 and Escape Velocity. (Note to all of you guys out there who have a sincere need to keep running your 68k apps: you don't count. At all. I don't care what your excuse is. MOVE ON.)
Do you guys REALLY think that it's all going to come together one month from now?
Again, my point is, people who just discovered this scene a year or so ago don't realize how long it's REALLY been.
I mean. If you get on the train right before the last stop, you wonder what all the passengers who have been on there for 3000 miles are complaining about!
I'm not believing a goddamn thing until I see it running on my system.
Has any other respectable site besides Emaculation uttered a word about this? If this was really going to happen, Apple would be on Drew faster than Sony on Bleem.
Until I see it running - I'll have to conur with Duckie... "yawn".
From what Jim Drew has said, this isn't just about Macintosh emulation on a PC. His PPC product, whatever it may be, seems to have a much broader scope than that.
Y'all can start a countdown if you want, but I wouldn't be wetting my pants just yet.
Not PPC Emulation, but very cool... (Score:3, Interesting)
For Amiga users with a PPC accelerator card, there's a product called iFusion [blittersoft.com], which lets an Amiga emulate an iMac. It's reputed to work with most software, and to work more quickly than a Mac with the equivalent processor, just as AMax did with an Amiga emulating a 680x0 Mac in the late 80s.
If you ever doubted the creative insanity of the Amiga community, let this put an end end your nonbelief.
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