Real PC discontinued

[MacsRgr8]

As stated on FWB's site (http://www.fwb.com/html/about_realpc.html)

Too bad.

[xpormac]

:eek:

[FredAkbar]

:(

[Ambrose Chapel]

i guess they didn't think it was the worth the hassle of the inevitable fight with M$

[Stike]

WWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

crap - I wonder if M$ would do such a great version of VPC that I can play CS one day on my computer...

[MisterMe]

Originally posted by Ambrose Chapel
i guess they didn't think it was the worth the hassle of the inevitable fight with M$ There is just entirely too much misinformation surrounding this emulator issue. First off, FWB was full of it when it promised that RealPC/SoftWindows would have substantially better performance and Virtual PC and would rival a hardware PC. That is not possible. FWB is still full of it by claiming that it had to kill the product because it has no code to be a new emulator. Real PC is based on Soft PC, the first emulator on the market. If FWB doesn't have the code, then no one does. FWB is overflowing with crap when it says that it has licensing issues that prevent bringing Real PC to market. A license is required for reduced prices from M$. If FWB shipped its product with no OS, or a standard retail version, no license would be required. It can ship with FreeDOS or Linux with much more favorable licensing agreements. Lismore sells its [crappy Classic only] Blue Label emulator without Windows for $30. The fact is that that FWB sees no market for an emulator whose performance can only rival that of Virtual PC. I tend to agree with them.

And now for M$. The Redmond Monopoly claims that it will be months before it can update VPC for G5-compatibility. The problem it claims is a special endian-conversion instruction that was removed by IBM for the G5. The thing that you have to bear in mind is that the emulation engine in VPC is quite small. If M$ is correct that it has to replace a single PPC instruction with an routine to do the same thing, this would seem to be a relatively quick update. There should be few if any changes outside the small emulation engine. If M$ takes longer than one month to patch VPC after it gets its hands on a G5, then it is dragging its feet.

[ColdZero]

Originally posted by Ambrose Chapel
i guess they didn't think it was the worth the hassle of the inevitable fight with M$


I guess they didn't want to go through the hassle of actually writing any code. :)

[Sun Baked]

Wrong thread. :rolleyes: