Hi,
I just finished installing linux for the first time. I just finished installing it on my powerpc desktop and am posting this message on it.

Anyways, I was hoping you all could point me in the right direction. I am looking for some game emulators, preferably Nes and genesis, that work under ppc linux. Using google I was able to find many linux emulators, but none of them are for ppc linux.

Is it safe to assume most linux software is written in x86? Could someone give me a link to site hosting game emulators for ppc linux? Any help would be appreciated.

Hmm...

Most software for Linux is written in cross-platform source code, not assembly or machine language. As far as I'm aware, you should be able to download the source code for the emulator and compile it, producing a binary for your system. I can't be sure about that, since I don't have any non-x86 hardware... but, it's worth a try.

dosbox works, it has a built in emulator, any emulation is gonna give you a massive slow down, i think dosbox gets you about 300 MHz from a 1.6 GHz machine thats be on top of a gui from a console you can probably run alot faster. Try the debian repositery it has quite a few i think

I didn't even think of that... there ought to be a software repository for the distro you're using. That ought to hold software for you.

on my iBook G4 I use fceultra for nes, snes9x for snes and generator-gtk for sega. This is a valid question while most apps can be compiled on ppc as well as x86 many emulators use x86 asm cores which obviously won't work on another arch.

Thank you, johnson_steve, those emulators are exactly what I was looking for. Heh, guess I chose the wrong architect to install linux on.

Not necessarily. Where there's a will (and a demand), there'll eventually be a way. You might even find some talented assembly programmer who'd be willing to translate the core from x86 assembly to PPC assembly.