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Re: Amiga Emulation
« on: March 29, 2003, 06:24:24 PM »
Not sure what you mean by "DOS", but in Amiga-emulation you
got basiclly two possible routes:

A) UAE, runs on MS-DOS,Windows and Linux, but the Win-version
is the most advanced.
The emu itself is free, but you will need an ROM-image which you
can either extract from a real Amiga or buy with the Amiga-Forever
package. UAE is a full emulator, including the chipset. making it
possible to run anything from old games to brand new apps.

B) Amithlon runs on it's own (on top of a specially modded
Linux-kernel), costs ~150 $/Euro, includes everthing you will
need, doesn't emulate the chipset (so no old games), but is twice
(sometimes even more) as fast as UAE. But beware and check if your HW
is compatible with it.

There is also some legal fighting over Amithlon going on, but since
none of the parties seems to have the guts (or whatever) to take it
into court, I wouldn't see a prob in buying it.
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else
 

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Re: Amiga Emulation
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2003, 08:07:04 PM »
A 500mhz Celeron or P2/3 running WinUAE, crushes even an 68060,
running Amithlon it would make the 060 look like a joke.

Rule of the thump:
Host-clock/4 (WinUAE) or Host-clock/2 (Amithlon) = clock of
emulated 68040.
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else
 

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Re: Is someone forgetting AROS?
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2003, 03:23:07 PM »
@hnl_dk

Won't happen due to technical reasons, as the system-structures
of AROS-x86 are not binary-compatible with AOS-68k.

AROS-UAE has to be enough.
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else