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Old July 29th, 2003   #12 (permalink)
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Re: Why not Mac?

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Originally Posted by Chrono Archange
isnt FlareStorm....or something like that hardware accelerated?
Flarestorm uses a plugin system, so a hardware accellerated gpu plugin could work, but right now, it's still software me thinks. Currently, it's too early in it's development to compete with current windows/linux psx emus. A mac G5 would be powerful enough to use for emulation purposes, but would you need a $3000+ desktop computer to play emulated psx games?

I wouldn't really worry about windows/linux systems not being able to run emulated ps2 games. When a ps2 emu starts to play commercial games at the level of current ps1 emulation, we'll have better PC hardware and the emulators will be heavily windows/linux optimized.
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