PowerFPU

Balrog — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:56:45 +0000

Application file:

PowerFPU is a 68K FPU emulator for PPC Macs. It's similar to Software FPU, but more somewhat faster and more efficient. This may be necessary to run older 68K apps on PPC hardware.
Author's page: http://www.ittybittycomputers.com/IttyBitty/PowerFPU/

Compatibility:

Requires a PPC Mac.
"One unlucky user discovered that opening the PowerFPU control panel disables it, requiring a re-install. Just install it and don't open it, if you have that problem."

Category:

Utilities

Author:

Tom Pittman

Year released:

1995

Publisher:

John M. Neil

System:

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Mac OS 9

Emulation:

SheepShaver (PPC)

Architecture:

PPC

SoftwareFPU 3.0

IIGS_User — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:01:36 +0000

Application file:

softwarefpu_3.03.sea_.bin

SoftwareFPU.img_.sit

SoftwareFPU is a control panel that allows most 68K applications expecting an FPU to work
properly on Macintoshes without one, such as the IIsi, IIvi, Macintosh LC series, Classic II and
Color Classic series, Performa series, and some models of the Quadra, PowerBook, and
PowerBook Duo series. SoftwareFPU will also work on Power Macintoshes. SoftwareFPU is
fully compatible with System 6, 7, and 8, and is PowerPC native.

SoftwareFPU will not work on 68000 Macintoshes such as the Macintosh Plus, SE, Classic, Portable, and PowerBook 100.