| Subject: RE: MagicMac, here we go! |
Author: Shalroth (wwwcache-d.lmu.ac.uk)
Date: 08-21-2002 10:21
The problem with running MagicMac on PowerPC systems is that MagicMac is a 680x0 binary, so the MacOS has to run it through an 0x0 to PPC translator (a bit like a wee CPU emu). The 0x0 virtual machine in MacOS only implements a 12MHz 020 (or so I have heard), so you won't be taking advantage of the 040's instruction cache or pipelines - which you would on an 040 based machine.
I don't think there's much chance of an
update to the virtual machine either - we all know how Apple Computer feel about supporting older machines (next version of Mac OS X may disable the ability to dual boot into OS 9.2!)
You could always get a cheap PC laptop from eBay (Toshiba Pentiums around 120 - 150MHz with TFT screens should cost around £150 by now) and install MagicPC onto it, and make Windoze run it as a shell, so it boots straight into the TOS environment! I did that for a while (with Gemulator rather than MagicPC) and it worked pretty well. But PCs - eww...
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Facundo |
08-15-2002 17:00 |
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Shalroth |
08-15-2002 17:44 |
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Joshua Kaijankoski |
08-15-2002 19:12 |
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Facundo |
08-16-2002 04:26 |
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ProToS |
08-17-2002 03:25 |
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MagCar |
08-17-2002 15:10 |
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Facundo |
08-17-2002 19:29 |
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ProToS |
08-18-2002 03:01 |
| RE: MagicMac, here we go! |
Shalroth |
08-21-2002 10:21 |
| RE: MagicMac, here we go! new |
Shalroth |
08-21-2002 10:22 |
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Shalroth |
08-21-2002 10:25 |
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