Emulators better than the real thing?

[vic20owner]

I just stumbled across the filter settings for WinUAE.  Previously I was irritated with emulators never being able to go full screen well.  Now, with the filter settings (although not perfect) I am satisfied.

Then I considered that an emulator is more compatible than teh real thing... for example my A1200 may not run older ECS games, but my emulator will.

If I want to use native resolutions, I could use the picasso driver.

So I am starting to think that a laptop running winuae with a bunch of adfs is a lot better than a classic amiga with a box of dying floppies.

I've gone so far as to start configuring winuae on my mame cabinet

So how many of you guys think the emulator beats the real thing hands down?

[vic20owner]

Well, after a couple weeks of tweaking, hacking, and rebooting my A1200 trying to get various demos and games installed via WHDload, my success rate is about 50%.

Many games (future wars, neuromancer) refused to run and just crashed my machine.  State of the Art still doesn't work.

Maybe it doesn't like where my accelerator maps memory, who knows.

In some cases I could adf2disk to a disk image for installation... but dms write to my virtual disks always fails, unless I use FMS, which doesn't allow inserting and removing disks on the fly.

So my opinion is that overall, WinUAE is MORE compatible than just one Amiga, while the overall experience and "Amiga Feeling" you get is better on the real machine.

So I still like playing with the real thing... but it's frustrating at times.

[vic20owner]

Um, well, I doubt it. I used DMS to write the State of the art demo to a floppy, and cold booted from it.  It locked up after 3 seconds.

Where in there does PEBKAC come into play?

Btw, I've been using Amigas since 1989, and have had about 13 of them of the past 10 years (3 3000's, 4 1200's, 6 500's).

I am using 3.0 roms skicked to 3.1.  It doesn't seem to work with either.  I just ordered some 3.1 roms just in case... plus it'll allow me to remove some patches.