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When i download any Dolphin program. And i try opening it, it says: "not supported by your architecture."
some info about my mac:
Model Name: PowerBook G4 15"
Model Identifier: PowerBook5,8
Processor Name: PowerPC G4 (1.5)
Processor Speed: 1.67 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 1
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 167 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.9.5f3
Serial Number (system): W8542L5QSWZ
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-001124E3819A
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
Anyways, is there any way to go around this or to fix it? Or maybe does someone have a replacing program? I'd be very happy with some info on how to do this. Thanx in advance

That's to be expected on a power PC architecture. This is x86 and x86-64 only.

(05-20-2012, 11:48 PM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: [ -> ]That's to be expected on a power PC architecture. This is x86 and x86-64 only.

Soo, based on this i'm guessing that there is nothing i can do, that there is no way around it and that there are no other programs that could help me out?

Yes.

Your CPU is not supported by Dolphin

You could write a whole new interpreter/recompiler (and in fact any code which runs on the CPU). The CPU side of things may even run better, but short of writing pretty much the whole emulator again just for power users, your stuck.

(05-21-2012, 12:16 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: [ -> ]You could write a whole new interpreter/recompiler (and in fact any code which runs on the CPU). The CPU side of things may even run better, but short of writing pretty much the whole emulator again just for power users, your stuck.

yeah, that might not be my forte, well thanx anyways. then i'll just wait till i'm buying a new computer :|

Not that your processor could run anything at more than 10 fps anyway^^

Nah, recompiling powerPC to powerPC isn't as hard as to x86, so he might have got surprising performance at least from the emulated CPU.

(05-21-2012, 04:14 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: [ -> ]Nah, recompiling powerPC to powerPC isn't as hard as to x86, so he might have got surprising performance at least from the emulated CPU.

True, though you still have to emulate the DSP, too.

It's more the non-GPU part of the non-CPU chip, and the ring buffer (FIFO) than just the DSP. HLE isn't that demanding when compared to the other parts of the system.