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Currently, QEMU fully emulates a Macintosh Quadra 800 and partially a NextCube. The latest addition to QEMU for M68k presented in this talk - which has not bee
by cbmuser 6y ago
Currently, QEMU fully emulates a Macintosh Quadra 800 and partially a NextCube.
The latest addition to QEMU for M68k presented in this talk - which has not been upstreamed yet - is a new pure virtual machine type based on Google Goldfish, optimized for speed.
The goal of the new virtual machine type is to offer something for developers working on Linux/m68k. It does not run any operating system without the necessary modifications.
So, no, it does not help Amiga emulation directly unless someone adds Amiga hardware emulation support to QEMU based on top of this work.
But it will certainly help the Amiga indirectly by providing a fast development and testing target for the Motorola 68000 CPU.
- rbanffy 6y ago> So, no, it does not help Amiga emulation directly unless someone adds Amiga hardware emulation support to QEMU based on top of this work. It may also be possible to add virtualized hardware support to the Amiga OS up to version 3.9 (which runs on 68020 and up), by whoever has legal rights to do so. It may fail to run games or other software that expects access to the Amiga hardware, but if you want to run well-behaved Amiga programs, it should be possible.
- saagarjha 6y agoWhat’s Google Goldfish?
- banana_giraffe 6y agoThe QEMU fork that the Android Emulator uses, or at least used. I had thought Goldfish was no longer used, and something closer to the QEMU repo is used for Android, but I'm not sure about that side of things.