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Ah I was referring to the thread title - a rosetta style layer.
Sorry, I was widening the scope a little.

But in terms of developers not being prepared to give over colossal amounts of their professional time there will always be edge case scenarios - consider all the work Cameron Kaiser did with zero financial return, or the enthusiasts on the Amiga scene - they have Dropbox and Twitter clients for example made with no financial incentive.
 
they have Dropbox and Twitter clients for example made with no financial incentive.
Yup, but that's a lot more straightforward than a translation layer between ppc and x86.

Porting dropbox/etc. is just mostly recompiling c source already available for Linux and re-implementing a few missing APIs.

I'm not saying its impossible for a hobbyist (just look at the MiSTer project for example) but its a huge amount of effort.
 
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£35 Buy it now? Fair play to you if you picked one up for that price because it was a bargain. I've just checked eBay UK and I can only see a couple of MM 2009's at £30 ish and that's for the opening bid. Everything else ranges around £60 to £90.
Those are today's listings but they won't sell. There were three or four yesterday and recently that went in the £30-£40 range, including auctions. I considered getting another but I have too many Macs already. I do have an Iomega Mini Max base unit arriving today for my 2009 Mini.

The M1 has rearranged the market. Prior to it, you'd be lucky to get one much under £100.
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But in terms of developers not being prepared to give over colossal amounts of their professional time there will always be edge case scenarios - consider all the work Cameron Kaiser did with zero financial return, or the enthusiasts on the Amiga scene - they have Dropbox and Twitter clients for example made with no financial incentive.

Other examples of this include the MAME dev team for the past 25 years: that's a colossal commitment towards free software!

Or within this very forum, there's your own numerous efforts, those of @alex_free, the PPC optimised Sorbet Leopard that @z970 has laboured away on - all of which has been provided to us for zilch.

On a personal level, I've purchased newly engineered and released peripherals for computers and games consoles whose manufacturers abandoned them decades ago. In some cases, they didn't gain much commercial traction beyond the UK but yet electronics enthusiasts are prepared spend the time to bring these products to what is a limited consumer base and financial returns.

Those are today's listings but they won't sell. There were three or four yesterday and recently that went in the £30-£40 range, including auctions. I considered getting another but I have too many Macs already. I do have an Iomega Mini Max base unit arriving today for my 2009 Mini.

The M1 has rearranged the market. Prior to it, you'd be lucky to get one much under £100.
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Ah, I see why I missed these. I was scanning for active listings.

You can never have too many Macs - or at least that's what I've convinced myself of lately. ;)
 
It might be possible but you have to remember that Intel processors at the time of the switch were much more powerful than the PPC ones they supplanted. That meant you could run PPC executables on top of Intel and the power of the Intel processor could suck up the overhead of code conversion and still leave an acceptable user experience. The same won't be true of running later Intel binaries on earlier PPC hardware. Look how poorly VPC ran once you tried to run a contemporary OS and applications, even on a G5.
Yeah I didn’t even think about that thank you
 
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