Amiberry: Cyberstorm PPC support

Created on 31 Oct 2019  路  3Comments  路  Source: midwan/amiberry

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
There is support for OS up to 3.9, but nothing for support past that. FS-UAE, WinUAE etc.. have added support for Cyberstorm PPC functionality with the Amiga 4000/4000T to allow for install of 4.0/4.1/4.1FE Classic versions to be installed.

Describe the solution you'd like
Support added to allow for Cyberstorm PPC compatibility

Describe alternatives you've considered
I've tried using FS-UAE as well as using WinUAE, but being able to set up scripts and use Amiberry with Cyberstorm PPC ROM support would be much more desirable. I know there are a lot of people that use Amiberry either on it's own as well as with builds like Amibian or RetroPie that have wanted something like this to allow for newer AmigaOS builds to be installed on a low-cost Raspberry Pi instead of the AmigaOne boards that are way too pricey.

Additional context
If this support has already been added, thank you very much. If it hasn't, it would be very appreciated. Amiberry does do some amazing stuff for us "frugal" Amiga fans.

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@phalkon13
PPC support is not feasible in the current board range I'm afraid, as it's too demanding on resources and it would make it unusable. The emulation of PPC happens with qemu in the background, which is good enough for the powerful x86 CPUs of modern desktops/laptops, but would kill the performance on the current ARM boards we have around.

Perhaps in the future, when we have faster boards available, this can become a reality.

Just to verify, are the Raspberry Pi 4 boards still not powerful enough?

No.
A good PC with Winuae have also problems to run a ppc emulation perfectly.

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