E-UAE on OS X - full screen possible? (AmiKit)

[blakespot]

I just installed AmiKit 8 and it's using E-UAE on OS X. My MBAir has 1366x768 screen and I've specified this res in Screenmodes. I want to get E-UAE to go fullscreen so I can run fullscreen.

F11-S is the key combo to go fullscreen, and keying in that does cause the display to fade out to black - but there is nothing on screen. Repeating the sequence brings back the OS X display.

Does anyone know how to get full screen actually working? mid-2011 MacBook Air and El Capitan.

(I know that FS-UAE is an option, but I would like to get this working with the bundled setup, E-UAE that I am aware has been derelict for some years.)



bp

[blakespot]

You might want to reconsider that position - FS-UAE is way better than E-UAE for both retro gaming purposes (saving current state as a snapshot, OpenGL rendered display...) and running a souped up AmigaOS (64 bit JIT, working TCP emulation...).

Ok, I've got AmiKit installed in FS-UAE latest release ver on OS X. I can now go fullscreen, but emulation is far slower.

As for a souped up Amiga...does FS-UAE not allow "as fast as we can go" clock speed? I've played with the accuracy settings, lower accuracy being faster, but things are still close to standard 68040. How do I "unchain" things? Or do I need E-UAE for that kind of speed?

Also .. AmiKit recommends 68040 emu. I left A4000 as system and CPU to auto and it gave me an 030 during install. I've now changed the FS-UAE Loader to 040 CPU, but should I re-run the installer for AmiKit in this config to get proper 040 libraries loading, or is it general enough that this is not needed?

Thanks.


bp

[blakespot]

Here is a short video showing first AmiKit under E-UAE and then under FS-UAE.

Also, not sure why AmiKit on E-UAE installed desktop icons whereas it did not under FS-UAE install.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agwfuOV6Ey0




bp

[blakespot]

Thinking about it, this would be a good opportunity to have the maintainer of the OSX version use the latest FS-UAE release in the new version of Amikit. Its so much better when set up correctly.

I downloaded FS-UAE from the FS-UAE website and followed the instructions on that site (not AmiKit's)...

http://fs-uae.net/installing-amikit-in-fs-uae

...to get AmiKit (they say use the Linux version regardless of what OS you're in) working. So it is the latest OS X ver of FS-UAE I am using.




bp

[blakespot]

The answer lies here.

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=81232

I got it working fast. Over twice as fast as under E-UAE, now.



bp