Motorola Blackhawk: a PC clone with a PowerPC 604 CPU from 1995! 

@Bits & more by René Rebe Great giveaway! I will not participate because I prefer someone else with more interest in the platform win the competition. Thanks for continuing to provide new content for older hardware :).

that is an interesting suggestions ;-) at least I recently have done Rendition Vertie vQuake on a similar "class" of machine (IDT WinChip) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i1ii0ZrPg2Q.html

yeah want one? I got a second one: ru-vid.comcommunity

Windows NT had an emulation layer back in the day? I was actually thinking if I should try find a WinNT PPC and try booting on this board. However, on a search it sounded like it might require flashing another firmware on the board so I postponed that for when I ever have too much time for that ;-) One thing is for sure: there where not many Windows PPC apps ever ;-) omgwtfbbq.ca/2018/07/installing-windows-nt-4-0-on-a-powerpc/ PS: ok, interesting, sounds like non-x86 NT indeed had some "SoftPC" emulation: retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/8971/did-windows-nt-4-emulate-x86-on-non-intel-platforms

Indeed! From what I remember it was only promised to work with win 16/32 applications that were supposed to be written to conform to some win32 specification that MS had at the time. And this apparently allowed the applications to run quite seamlessly as though you had an x86 PC (just a lot slower). And anything that was more obscure or needed more direct hardware access was problematic and as a result would have various degrees of usability. There were many programs which did work quite well within this framework. In fact compatibility seemed fairly good overall. But it would be the performance of a decent 386 or so on a 100mhz Mips r3k for example. Similar to how my PPC Mac 7100/66 runs 68k software at about LCiii speed or less. On the alpha port, applications that were following guidelines to the strictest degree ran significantly faster as it probably had the best emulator. This is all from my old memory though. It has been some time since I was able to play with any of the odd windows NT ports.

Quake 1 benchmark comparison?

@@rugxulo That would be awesome but someone'd need to tweak some of the code. Mr Carmack pulled a few tricks in assembler on x86. Wouldn't be fair if the same is not done on both platforms :) I believe even the old beasts has fmadd for example? Hard to convince gcc to use that one instead of some convoluted mess. I think René has a lot more knowledge in that department than me.

Thanks, happy that you like it! Trying hard with the limited time between my day job ;-) PS: this boards where also sitting in the basement for a decade next to the Octane ;-)

Starting to remind me of LGR, which is cool.

thanks, but Linux drivers are not machine independent?

Iirc this prep was long removed . Will try soon. ;-)