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Just out of curiosity, as a means of settling whether this is even a worthy idea... what was the point in which 68k emulation on PPC overtook 68k code running natively on a 68040?
Ignore for a moment the existance of FAT binaries or recompiling for PPC.
I know the 601s were pretty crap at this (it *is* emulated), but were the 603s or 604s able to match the speed of a real 68040?
Given that Apple wrote a pretty decent emulator, I suspect a 68060, or even Coldfire, would fill only a VERY small need. Thus, the first person that responded to this thread (aeons ago) probably had the most beautifully simplistic answer. Which is to get a cheap G3 or possibly even a lesser PPC.
Just out of curiosity, as a means of settling whether this is even a worthy idea... what was the point in which 68k emulation on PPC overtook 68k code running natively on a 68040?
Ignore for a moment the existance of FAT binaries or recompiling for PPC.
I know the 601s were pretty crap at this (it *is* emulated), but were the 603s or 604s able to match the speed of a real 68040?
Given that Apple wrote a pretty decent emulator, I suspect a 68060, or even Coldfire, would fill only a VERY small need. Thus, the first person that responded to this thread (aeons ago) probably had the most beautifully simplistic answer. Which is to get a cheap G3 or possibly even a lesser PPC.