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daedalao

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fastppcx86 - an x86-64 userspace emulator for power8 and up.
« on: August 04, 2026, 09:56:57 pm »
I don't know how to program, I just understand the concepts of hardware emulation. I forked this from FEX-Emu a few months ago. Myself and another contributor used a mixture of local llms running on our power hardware and claude code. All work was done on Arch Power maintained by kth5. There is a lot of work to do as I only have a power8 machine, my co-contributor has a power9 workstation.

edit: I linked the wrong repo, here.
https://github.com/daedalao/fastppcx86

This video shows launching windows Portal 2 via proton from Steam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eh6YbRWqHM

I don't know if this is the appropriate forum for this post.

Edit: This requires a 4k page size. I don't have 64k setup at the moment.
« Last Edit: August 10, 2026, 10:05:59 pm by daedalao »

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Re: fastppcx86 - an x86-64 userspace emulator for power8 and up.
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2026, 04:59:06 pm »
Sure seems appropriate to me. I'll have to try it out.

daedalao

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Re: fastppcx86 - an x86-64 userspace emulator for power8 and up.
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2026, 05:22:04 pm »
I linked the wrong repo originally, apologies.

Edit:

This video was tested with the currently available git repo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtqy8X04fa8
« Last Edit: August 12, 2026, 03:51:06 am by daedalao »