A (hopefully new) thought

[eternalcold]

Hello, i was wondering the other day about emulators. Now basiclly the machine has to be 3X as powerful as the machine your trying to emulate right? well, what if someone was able to make a sort of operating system, that is basiclly just the code from lets say the gamecube, but optomized to look for a certain directory for the games. like C:gamecube_OS/roms something like that. Then since it wouldnt really be emulating it, it would sort of be running it like the system.... and a computer is much more powerful than, for example, the gamecube so if instead of emulating it, we just sort of re-made the Gamecube os to work on the computer (like detecting hardware devices such as video cards, audio cards, and joypads/keyboard) and get it to load roms(isos) as disks... do you think it would run full speed? if not faster?

If this is a completely RETARDED idea that will never work, feel free to flame me i guess, but nothing ever happens to those who do nothing.



and if its possible, well then i guess it could be looked into. who knows.

EDIT: im sorry i just realized i accidently posted this in the wrong section, could a mod or admin please move it to the genral GC Emulation discussion forum?

[Cdti]

The hardware is different, and OS is not an interpreter, the CPU is.

[Toasty]

How much more powerful the host system must be than the emulated system depends greatly on both platforms, and how emulation is accomplished. You can't write an operating system for a PC that will make the PC's hardware natively capable of processing Gamecube code - it just doesn't work that way. The hardware in your PC determines what kind of programming it can run - not the OS that you install on it. The Gamecube doesn't even come with an OS (though I've heard it's possible to run Linux on it); it just has a BIOS.

[eternalcold]

Alright thanks, if a mod would close this thread, that would be great.