Comments on: PCE.js

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 06:16:28 +0000

I know the one funny thing mess is lacking is high density disks….

I’m not sure about cdroms though.

By: Peter Godwin

Peter Godwin — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 23:43:15 +0000

In reply to neozeed. MESS has the best chance of running A/UX compared with any other emulator at the moment. It's certainly a very capable Mac II emulator with NuBUS card emulation, etc.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:00:55 +0000

In reply to ampharos.

Well on the Amiga front with the latest WinUAE it can happily run AMIX & NetBSD so the 68030 MMU code seems to be in place. I would assume if PCE.js actually emulates the SWIM & SCSI then there may be hope some day of someone being able to combine all the bits and make a real Macintosh II emulator (although I loved the Quadra 700’s..)

Then you can A/UX away. I kind of liked A/UX, it was Unix, but it felt very MacOS’ey. Kind of like OS X. I would have imagined they could have made it more universal, but the SYSV licensing must have killed them. Which is probably the fundamental reason why NeXTSTEP was BSD/Mach based for cheaper licensing….. that and the whole mach rage of the late 1980s.

By: ampharos

ampharos — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:30:56 +0000

In reply to Peter Godwin. Now if only they would do an II era machine instead of the flood of Plus emulators - I want A/UX damnit!

By: Peter Godwin

Peter Godwin — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:43:19 +0000

I’ve always been meaning to have a go with PCE.

The PC Emulation wasn’t much go on my i7-2600 under Firefox, but the Mac Plus emulation certainly seemed spot on performance wise. Actually a fair bit faster as the disk emulation is nice and quick.

From memory PCE on the Mac Plus side actually does the SCSI and SWIM emulation rather than patching the ROM, which is quite cool.