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Re: Finally tried AROS
« on: March 30, 2006, 03:08:23 PM »
the AROS is great! But it lacks binary compatibility with the AmigaOS, hope this`ll be fixed soon - with use of UAE m68k emulator integration, it should behave better than MorphOS - the best idea for graphic screens would ie. be a window on desktop, displaying an AGA screen from the game you just run :)

I recently eMuled the Amithlon - and for now it seems to be the best solution for having an Amiga running on x86, and, until AROS reaches binary compatibility to AmigaOS, it will remain the best x86-Amiga-solution for me, even with it`s no-paula-sound 'feature'
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Re: Finally tried AROS
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2006, 03:19:00 PM »
Amithlon runs actually everything written for 68k in a system-conform way. It`s an emulator, like WinUAE, but it is much faster, and allows direct PCI bus handling through it`s powerpci.library and openpci.library.

This means you can use video gards, sound cards, LAN contrlrs, and USB devies as if you had an PCI-expanded amiga and those cards fitted inside it.

And the whole emulation is MUCH MUCH faster than WinUAE because the emulator is actually the only task that is ran in such a PC - it behaves close to a stand-alone OS.
MacBook C2D 1.83/1.25GB/80GB/Combo
AMD Sempron 3400+  AM2 1800MHz->2400MHz/1GB/80GB/DVD-RW

no Amigas ...  :-(