Amiga Emulator for iPhone in development

[Vairn]

Yeah, 565 is always going to be faster, make sure you setup your EAGL context to be the same format, for a little perf and mem boostie.

If you can get away with it, do all texture coord's calculations on the Vertex shader, it is what apple recommend, supposedly it doesn't get the dependent texture reads. I haven't tested it at work, back in PC land atm. Might have a looksie later, now that my daughter is in bed. (11 months old in 2 days ).

[scarnie]

Yeah, 565 is always going to be faster, make sure you setup your EAGL context to be the same format, for a little perf and mem boostie.

If you can get away with it, do all texture coord's calculations on the Vertex shader, it is what apple recommend, supposedly it doesn't get the dependent texture reads. I haven't tested it at work, back in PC land atm. Might have a looksie later, now that my daughter is in bed. (11 months old in 2 days ).

Absolutely - my EAGL context is 16-bit.  I've tested removing the dependent read and perf jumps right back to 60fps.  Unfortunately, can't calculate the 'effect' texture in vertex shader, but I've got some alternatives I want to try.  GL_REPEAT might do the job for me

Congrats on the little one too, mate!  Good stuff.

[djnick]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz09SK-NHQ8[/url]
The other is on the ipad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFSVq9amdrw

I know there are sound issues.

Amazing! I installed last week Mame emulator with over 150 great games on my 3gs and I am more than happy to see how fast it is working! Can't wait to try iAmiga

[scarnie]

Yeah, 565 is always going to be faster, make sure you setup your EAGL context to be the same format, for a little perf and mem boostie.

If you can get away with it, do all texture coord's calculations on the Vertex shader, it is what apple recommend, supposedly it doesn't get the dependent texture reads. I haven't tested it at work, back in PC land atm. Might have a looksie later, now that my daughter is in bed. (11 months old in 2 days ).

By eliminating the dependent texture reads, I now maintain a consistent 60fps with effects enabled in full screen (960x640)!

Cheers,

Stu

[theweeone]

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.

Nice idea. Only question is how would someone control a game an an Iphone. Incidentally I just bought an Iphone 2 days ago. It would be nice to have some sort of Amiga emulator on it,that is if Apple would ever approve it. If not then why not? It's not as if it would harm the company in any way.

[slaapliedje]

They do work well at what your allowed to do with them and if that matches what you want from the devices then fair enough.
 
i would keep my N900 over an iphone or android device any day

I have an N900 as well, and I love it.

What we need is a proper PUAE port though.  Then again, I have a hard time getting a build to work on my desktop machine at this point.

I also haven't had much luck in using the e-UAE port or the UAE4ALL port.  The first doesn't get much further than the configuration UI for anything I've tried, and the other I haven't been able to do much, but play a choppy sounding game.

slaapliedje

[bsauvage]

Stuart, congrats on launching Defender of the Crown. Great effort, it works flawlessly! Very well optimised, you deserve it to be a success.
 
Vairn, any news about your open source project?

[Karlos]

"Work" is subjective mate.

I don't buy iSaviour devices because they don't work.

Hang on, I've seen your apple notebook :lol:

From what I recall, it looks like it needs a saviour itself!

[nicholas]

Hang on, I've seen your apple notebook :lol:

From what I recall, it looks like it needs a saviour itself!

It's got worse!

[scarnie]

Stuart, congrats on launching Defender of the Crown. Great effort, it works flawlessly! Very well optimised, you deserve it to be a success.
 
Vairn, any news about your open source project?

Thanks much, mate.  Lot of work, but worth the effort.  On to the next title now.  We've got a lot of interest to publish more Amiga titles!

[martin.demsky]

http://www.martindemsky.com/iphone.jpg

i have these iP apps, including Amiga titles, but i deleted many free because 16 gig wasn't enough

[lugduweb]

Look here :
http://iuae.dragotech.net/?m=201108

iUAE is an Amiga Emulator for Apple iOS and Android in development by Vairn !
Looks like a release is coming soon...
Don't know if iUAE is only for iPhone or also for iPad.

[ddniUK]

Has this been used by Cinemaware for their Amiga emulated Defender of the Crown IoS offering?
http://itunes.apple.com/app/defender-of-the-crown/id447552008?mt=8

[Piru]

Look here :
http://iuae.dragotech.net/?m=201108

iUAE is an Amiga Emulator for Apple iOS and Android in development by Vairn !
Looks like a release is coming soon...
Don't know if iUAE is only for iPhone or also for iPad.

Too bad that you need to jailbreak your iPhone/iPad in order to use this thing. Apple won't allow full blown emulation to app store.

3.3.2 An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise. No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s).

[Calen]

Look here :
http://iuae.dragotech.net/?m=201108
iUAE is an Amiga Emulator for Apple iOS and Android in development by Vairn !
Looks like a release is coming soon...
Don't know if iUAE is only for iPhone or also for iPad.

I had run into this site only a few days, His PUAE port seems quite interesting for Android.
Early days with it as no sound yet. First release expected soon.

Just got a Galaxy S2 the past week, so quite looking forward to trying it.

http://droidpuae.blogspot.com/

[bloodline]

Too bad that you need to jailbreak your iPhone/iPad in order to use this thing. Apple won't allow full blown emulation to app store.

Or have a developer licence... Then you can compile your own