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Post #30 by Bunsen
Source Forum68kMLA
Category68k
Post DateSat, 8 Sep 2007 - 19:04
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/68060-accelerator-cards-for-mac-would-you-be-willing.8459/
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Coldfire on PPC machines
Why? When it would be even harder / or perhaps impossible.
Why? So you can run your 68k apps on a machine with a faster bus, more memory, bigger hard drive, better video, etc.
Every single other thing on the machine, including the ROM, is expecting a PPC, not a 68k or a Coldfire. Won't work, IMHO.

I could maybe see it working as a PCI card with a set of INITs that patch the ROM to trap all 68k code and redirect it to the Coldfire with some re-interpretation along the way for incompatible opcodes. Maybe.

But then one really does have to wonder why you'd bother when it would be a whoooole load easier and cheaper to stick a 1 GHz G4 in there and run 68k apps on it.