What is the most "advanced" game machine/platform a classic Amiga can emulate?

[Tripitaka]

This is about classic Amigas with or without a PPC, so please be realistic.

IMHO, a superb question. Have we got any good 3DO or Saturn emulations?

[delshay]

i would think a Cyberstorm MkIII or a Cyberstorm PPC should be a starting point on performance/emulation on classic amigas.

with some users modifying their cards upto 400Mhz, perhaps someone can try what performance gains there are with this new speed for classic.

[zipper]

MacOS 9 via iFusion, CSPPC233, was pretty fast but development stopped. No networking and slow drive access etc. Wasted money but sort of fun yet.

[Hattig]

interesting question but I think you have to narrow it down some, because of the different ways of emulation;  

mame-type: complete disconnect from hardware, can run anything on anything but costly in resources. (I remember running a 4MHz z80 game on A1200 28MHz at around 1-2 fps)  

Considering I could run a Spectrum emulator at full speed on a 14MHz A1200, I would hazard that the MAME issue is being totally disconnected via abstraction layers from the underlying hardware, being written in C, and also probably emulating some complex graphics chippery on top of that.

[Britelite]

Considering I could run a Spectrum emulator at full speed on a 14MHz A1200.

I'd say it's not a very exact emulator in that case

[Vulture]

I'd say it's not a very exact emulator in that case

I'd assume he means ZXAM which, while not totally accurate, it was about 90-95% compatible to 48k software and it emulated the AY sound chip as well.

[Xanxi]

The most perfect emulator on the amiga is Amimastergear: perfect emulation of SEGA Master System and Game Gear even on a vanilla A1200. Glory to its author, who even released a free key for it.

[Britelite]

I'd assume he means ZXAM which, while not totally accurate, it was about 90-95% compatible to 48k software and it emulated the AY sound chip as well.

Compatible as in 'it loads and runs' or 'it actually looks and sounds like it's supposed to'? If it's the former then I can believe the 90-95%, but if it's the latter then not.

EDIT: a small clarification: 'it actually looks and sounds like it's supposed to while running at full speed and 50fps on an 14MHz A1200'

[Franko]

If that's your configuration, and you don't already have one, you really ought should consider getting an RTG solution for it...

Been trying to get hold of a gfx board for years now, but had no luck so far even on ebay...