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Title: Emulation of Amiga in Amiga
Post by: Drummerboy on May 06, 2004, 03:52:54 PM

Hello People!

Some know if exist any Emulator of Amiga (like a A500), for use in Amiga?..

Exits something like this?

Regards!!

Title: Re: Emulation of Amiga in Amiga
Post by: Linchpin on May 06, 2004, 03:54:01 PM

Do you mean something like Relokick to soft kick a 2.04 rom amiga down to 1.3 roms?

Title: Re: Emulation of Amiga in Amiga
Post by: Piru on May 06, 2004, 03:55:40 PM

@Drummerboy

UAE.

Title: Re: Emulation of Amiga in Amiga
Post by: Linchpin on May 06, 2004, 03:59:29 PM

Sorry to act "dumb"... but why the need to emulate an amiga within an amiga? (apart from kickdown to run old games, etc)..

Or am i barking up the wrong tree?

Title: Re: Emulation of Amiga in Amiga
Post by: bloodline on May 06, 2004, 04:16:54 PM

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LinchpiN wrote:
Sorry to act "dumb"... but why the need to emulate an amiga within an amiga? (apart from kickdown to run old games, etc)..

Or am i barking up the wrong tree?

It is both possible and desirable to emulate and Amiga on an Amiga. I have found UAE to be more compatible with my software than my real Amigas .

Title: Re: Emulation of Amiga in Amiga
Post by: Linchpin on May 06, 2004, 04:38:57 PM

I see.. mad one :-)

Title: Re: Emulation of Amiga in Amiga
Post by: Holley on May 08, 2004, 06:30:30 PM

There's plenty of old games & demos that are timed for a stock 68000, and go berserk on higher clock speeds ;-)

Title: Re: Emulation of Amiga in Amiga
Post by: Acill on May 08, 2004, 07:56:07 PM

I had to use UAE on my A3000 a lot if I wanted to play some older games. The cool thing about it to ois the latest build even supported AGA emulation. So with a graphics card amiga you could play AGA games on a non AGA amiga. I dont think its very good on a non PPC system though.

Title: Re: Emulation of Amiga in Amiga
Post by: Daedalus on May 08, 2004, 08:16:26 PM

That's true, it absolutely crawls on an 060/66 with native chipset emulation. Not at all useful IMHO. What it needs really is an 680x0 emulation core similar to that used by Fusion/Shapeshifter which would allow it to run much faster...

Title: Re: Emulation of Amiga in Amiga
Post by: Piru on May 08, 2004, 08:26:19 PM

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What it needs really is an 680x0 emulation core similar to that used by Fusion/Shapeshifter which would allow it to run much faster...

That will never happen with UAE.

You might want to take a look at WHDLoad (http://www.whdload.de/) for this.

Title: Re: Emulation of Amiga in Amiga
Post by: mdwh2 on May 08, 2004, 10:40:34 PM

As well as compatibility, another useful reason for running old games through emulation is because most old games locked up the rest of a system, and would require a reboot afterwards.

These days it's much better to be able to run a game without having to shut down other applications or reboot, and UAE lets you do that.

Title: Re: Emulation of Amiga in Amiga
Post by: Daedalus on May 10, 2004, 03:59:08 PM

Yes, I'm well aware of WHDLoad and similar systems - they're still flakey and cause problems requiring a reboot a lot of the time if you want to go back to normal applications. I know it'll never happen with UAE due to the very nature of the project, but it would be nice . . .

/me considers starting a new programming project ;)