[50G] Question

[Tugdual]

(03-09-2015 09:50 PM)Marcus von Cube Wrote:  

(03-09-2015 09:36 PM)Tugdual Wrote:  Just found that the 50G was actually an emulated Saturn on ARM.
I really thought it would be ARM native assembly. What's the benefit of emulating Saturn?

The existing code base. It's not the first time in computer history that new hardware was used to emulate older designs just to preserve the investment in software. (Tandem Computers' NonStop architecture comes to my mind here.)

Wonder if the PC emulator is emulating the ARM that emulates the Saturn or if the PC is a recompilation of the same ARM emulator code. The second would make sense especially when we know that the prime on PC is a simulator, meaning that the ARM code was recompiled.