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From: "John Blackburne" <johnb@hk.super.net>
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Subject: Re: N64 on the PC
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 09:59:59 +0000
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> Imagine the possible impact a working Dreamcast emulator could have if it
> arrived before the machine's official US/European release.

Not for a very long time: to emulate a machine effectivewly you need a
machine an order of magnitude more powerful. Look at other non-game
emualtors around today. Connectix, publishers of VGS,  have for years been
shipping very good x86 emulators, but at best they offer good 486/slow (1st
gen) Pentium performance. And this is emulating CISC. It's a lot more
difficult (i.e. you see much worse results) emulating RISC processors.

And even if you could solve the software problems how are PCs going to load
games from GD-ROM disks ? The next PC media standard is set to be DVD-ROM,
backwardly compatible with CD-ROM but not GD-ROM, and few people are going
to have the paitience, bandwidth or spare HD space to download GD-ROM sized
images any time soon.

John