Amiga Emulator for iPhone in development

[Vairn]

Hey Guys, Girls.
I posted this other at EAB, a few days ago, but I shall share the love here too.
for the past few months I have been working on my own amiga emu for the iphone/ipad. Based on the winuae source tree. (which is slower then uae4all), but I have the fame_c core as well.

It is getting closer to a alpha beta release which I am planning for End of Jan, Early Feb.

Here are a couple of Video's I made of it the other day, (both show frontier), one is of the iphone/ipod
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz09SK-NHQ8
The other is on the ipad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFSVq9amdrw

I know there are sound issues.

Unlike the iAmiga emu, this one wont be locked to specific games. It will be available via Cydia, or if you aren't Jailbroken I will have a limitied amount available.
More details about that once the beta is out though.
Thanks Adam T.

[Matt_H]

Nicely done!

[nicholas]

iAmiga uses GPL source code illegally as the DRM in the Apple Appstore is incompatible with the GPL licence.

See the recent issues with VLC.

[kickstart]

iAmiga? =(

[persia]

[AmigaEd]

I was at the mall checking out some phones this evening. Mostly, looking over the android selection. I also looked over the iPhone 4 and of course I just had to use the browser to surf over to Amiga.org. I noticed this thread on the front page, so I did humanity a favor and made sure I left this thread on visible on the iPhone display.

Gotta, say I feel pretty good about myself right now!:biglaugh:

The emulator looks quite good, if I keep seeing this kind of stuff, I'll end up buying one of these new fangled smart phones yet!

[fishy_fiz]

Each to thier own, but I couldnt use an amiga emulator on a phone. Half of the appeal of the amiga is the creative side, which is completely quashed by using it on a phone or similar device.

[motorollin]

This is great news! Would you be willing to share the XCode project? I haven't jailbroken my iPhone but have an Apple developer account so with the XCode project I can compile it myself and provision my phone to run it

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moto

[Vairn]

@Amiga Ed:
Haha, awesome. I remember people going around and jailbreaking them when jailbreak.me came out too.

@fishy_fiz:
yup, and the half that is me playing games on my ipad on the train ride home from work (takes 1 hour)
if anyone else gets any joy from it, it is a bonus

@motorollin:
I will release the source code, so other people can make use of it.
Maybe not with the first beta though, depends on how neat the code is.
Via git or some other code repo.

[fishy_fiz]

@fishy_fiz:
yup, and the half that is me playing games on my ipad on the train ride home from work (takes 1 hour)
if anyone else gets any joy from it, it is a bonus

Ah, I see you're in Melbourne (Im just outside, in Ballarat). Them sounds like fighting words to me, come on then fisticuffs all the way, we'll settle this like men  
Hehe, nah, seriously, it's kinda cool. Not really for me though.

[motorollin]

That's great news, thanks Vairn! Will there be higher resolution iPad and retina versions?

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moto

[ChaosLord]

I hope you will add JIT

[Vairn]

@Fishy_fiz:
Cool, I shall meet you half way, that would be hmm, Melton right?

@Motorollin:
Yea, it scales it up on the Ipad/retina.
I may implement an OpenGLES shader for it, depends on the overhead, atm.
Since I am not going via appstore, I can use the forbidden CoreSurface API woo.
So the emu writes straight to the video buffer. Take that Apple, which then it nicely scales to fit the window.
atm it runs at 640x480.

I am working on getting p96 working, so you can have a nice 1024x768 wb.


@ChaosLord:
I have plans to write a ARM asm version of the CPU core, maybe not JiT though.
But that will be after the beta.

[motorollin]

@Vairn
Sounds out of this world!!!!! Do you needs any beta testers? I have an iPhone 4 and an iPad I would be more than happy to test on

[jj]

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