I'm setting up a serious install of WB3.1 at the moment and would like some tweaking and 'best ways of doings things' advice.
At the moment I have an install of WB3.1 (using KS3.1) on two hardfiles, I've got Picasso96, MWB and MUI installed, running at 1024x768x32 in a window, all running nicely.
A few questions:
I've got an Athlon XP @ 1.5GHz, and I'm emulating a 68040/fpu. In Workbench, just leaving the window running gets me some erratic CPU usage results on the Athlon, I would guess anything between 20 - 60 % CPU usage all the time when WB is "idle" (I realise it's got to keep emulating the hardware all the time non-stop, but I don't know whether these kind of figures are to be expected). I've experimented with settings in the CPU tab of WinUAE, and currently things are set to: 68040, "fastest possible, but maintain chipset timing", JIT cache=8MB, "const jump"=yes "FPU support"=yes ", "no flags"=yes, and that's the best combination I've found so far, but is there a better combination of settings, and/or would someone like to explain these a bit to me please?
Occasionally I'm getting a problem where the Amiga mouse pointer remains painted on the screen behind the pointer position like an old music video. Sometimes pressing F12 to get WinUAE's control window up and cancelling it fixes it, but sometimes not. Most (I think all) of the time an Amiga reset fixes it, but what might this be? I don't know how to configure Picasso96 properly, and I've tried to a certain extent. I configured the screenmode in prefs: screenmode but Picasso96 complains if I configure it there too. My real A1200 is AGA so I've never needed to touch Picasso96.
Internet access - I've shared COM2 (my serial port my modem is connected to) with WinUAE, and Miami was pulse dialling it (not sure why, again usually with my real A1200 I use a NIC and internet connection sharing), but I was getting horrendously bad throughput (guessing at 1KB/sec), I'm assuming this is down to the Amiga's serial driver (I selected miami's serial driver where it allowed me to). I would prefer to dial the connection manually through Windows and have the Amiga share the connection if this is possible, then I can use Windows for Internet access at the same time as my emulated Amiga.
