Amithlon2 vs Winuae

[bhoggett]

First, the name "Amithlon2" does not apply. It's been changed for trademark reasons, and the new name will be announced when the product goes on sale.

Now, to take things one at a time:

What I was wondering is, should I be looking forward to Amithlon 2?

Only you can answer that one.

Does it do anything Winuae doesn't?

Yes, a number of things, mainly centered around hardware access from AmigaOS and the ability to run x86 native code.

Is it any faster?

Yes, it's approximately 30% faster, though YMMV slightly.

It cost a lot more, well Amithlon 1 does anyway.

True. "v2"'s proposed price was much lower, but it won't come with a full OS 3.9 disribution, so you may need to add that to the cost. Either way, the cost will remain higher than Amiga Forever, but that's to be expected.

And no, I don't know  when it will finally be on sale.

[bhoggett]

No PPC only game will work, so WipeOut, Heretic II, Shogo etc are all out.

Descent: Freespace works fine - though it can only use software rendering - and the frame rate is very good on a half-decent PC. (800MHz or so)

As a rule of thumb, any RTG compatible 68k game should work with Amithlon. Examples would be Quake, Myst, Napalm, Earth 2140, The Feeble Files, Payback etc.