UAE vs real A1200

[Tomas]

UAE might seem faster on pure cpu power and such, but try a game that really takes advantage of the amiga custom chipset, then you will see that it runs far from as smooth as on the real thing... A scroller game or demo is a real nice test for this.

Emulators can never replace the real thing in my opinion...
But it does depend on what you use it for.. if you are going to for example render something in a amiga rendering program, then i see the advantage using a emulator instead of the standard a1200.

[Tomas]

winuae is great. however no matter how fast cpu you have

OpenGL is definitely better than at this yeah, but it still is far from as good as a amiga, due to limitations in the pc design itself...

[Tomas]

Legerdemain wrote:

UAE might seem faster on pure cpu power and such, but try a game that really takes advantage of the amiga custom chipset, then you will see that it runs far from as smooth as on the real thing... A scroller game or demo is a real nice test for this.

This is very far from the truth. As long as you have what it takes, hardware-wise smooth scrolling will never be a problem. I seldom have to do more than to play around with the Hz, apply v-sync and voila. I did actually run Turrican II in my old 350MHz Compaq Presario under WinUAE smooth as silk. Never had any problems with this whatsoever on any "new" machine.

Quite odd that it wont run very smooth on any setting i have tried then.. I have tried both linux and windows version of uae, and cannot even get those games running completly as smooth as my a500 even after experimenting with different settings and enabling vsync..

Or is my amd xp2100, gf4 ti4200 more crappy than your 350mhz compaq?

What i experience can best be described as a dropped frame. The gfx might go quite smooth for a while, but then it suddently jerkes a bit. I have experienced this with pc games/demos aswell...

Maybe i am just a bit picky about such issues?