UAE for MorphOS

[ptek]

Hi all,

A few days ago I was surprised with the announcement of the EFIKA-5K2 mini board. As far I understood, it can run morphos.

Today I visited the Aminet and I just read that a version of UAE (e-uae0.8.29-WIP3) was uploaded.

The EFIKA board seemed a cool thing just to run an Amiga like OS (morphOS) and why not a bit of Debian Linux (as long you don't mind push the 128MB RAM too much) but I always thought that I wouldn't be able to play most Amiga HW banging games.

But with UAE, well, it could be a nice thing. I could even use a TV-out gfx card on the board and play on TV !

Does anyone with morphos (on Pegasus or EFIKA) may tell me if this UAE is a good port ? You know, decent speed on most games an so on.

[amiga4001]

I am using e-uae here(believe 0,8.28) and speed is ok.
I am playing Banshee apydia turrican with whdload in the uae atmosphere.
But am using a pegasos2 overclocked to 1.27 Ghz.
Don't know if efika can handle it?
On this machine euae feels like a 1200 woth a 030 30MHz or something.

[ptek]

@amiga4001,

BTW how much did your pegasos cost you ?

[Tomas]

Does it support vsync?

[djbase]

I doubt UAE would be fast enough on EFIKA.

[SamuraiCrow]

Only the Intel versions of EUAE support JIT.  It would be a lot faster on an equivalent Linux PC than on EFIKA.

[Acill]

I use E-UAE PPC quite a bit on my Pegasos. It runs well, and should run nice on the efika once MorphOS gets released for it. For now if you get an efika all you can run is Linuc, MOS isnt released just yet for it.

[pVC]

Well.. E-UAE on PegasosI isn't that fast.. just A500 speed I guess. For example SuperFrog runs ok, but sound clicks sometimes. So it's barely there... Efika is bit slower from CPU side, but has faster mem.. so hard to say how well it will run UAE

[ptek]

Yes, it seems the efika will be not the right platform to run it a decent speed... Considering by the replies here that a Pegasos2 1GHz does it at the limit and efika has a lower speed CPU (400MHZ) and uses the same RAM (266MHz DDR) I'm not expecting much

JIT would be great.

Maybe running UAE on low-res modes and 22Khz sound would be possible. Is it possible to run UAE on Pegasos in full screen (not windowed)?

BTW is MOS free for those who buy Pegasos and efika (when available for the latter) ?

[djbase]

Yes, MorphOS comes with every Pegasos and will do also with EFIKA later I think.

[Paradox]

UAE will be GREAT on Efika  wether its Linux or MorphOS

The GP2X hendehld has UAE with only 64MB ram 200mhz cpu and sd card. has small Linux OS..!GP2X

It runs great!

There is archive here

there are videos like Stunt Car Racer

and Turrican II on YouTube that show off the gp2x UAE!

the efika has 2 usb ports for gamepads etc network for downloading roms sound  and 2.5" disk...also could have tv out for games if it could be enabled.

400mhz ppc is more than enough power to run any old amiga game

If MorphOS is real light then should be perfect...

[ptek]

The GP2X hendehld has UAE with only 64MB ram 200mhz cpu

Accordingly with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X , the GP2X have dual-core CPU at 200Mhz. Hmmm does the programs for it benefit of the dual core processing ?

The LCD display is 320x240. I don't know if the UAE emulator for it run at this resolution. If so, there should not be a problem for running no efika.

[ptek]

and this on YouTube that show off the gp2x UAE!

well, the video show us a choppy soound processing (during the theme song) and frame skipping during gameplay ... But one cannot conclude if the frame skipping is due to bad recording...

[Piru]

@Paradox

You are wrong. EFIKA is not powerful enough for smooth UAE emulation. Some light games might run fast enough, but anything more demanding will not.

It is not very smart to bring up false hopes about this. EFIKA is rather neat, but it is not a generic purpose desktop computer. I prefer to be honest about such things.

[XDelusion]

Tis sad that there is no JIT type support on PPC. Amiga can't emulate Amiga as well as Windows...


...definatly a sad affair.