How fast is MorphOS?

[KennyR]

Believe me, MOS on Pegasos feels a lot faster than UAE on any PC, gigahertz CPU or not. Pure emulators just don't come close.

[KennyR]

hammer wrote:

What about against a ~2.2Ghz Athlon XP, Radeon 9800 Pro, nForce 2 400 Ultra and 1Gb 400FSB DDR SDRAM (dual channel 512Mb x2)?

If you buy me one I'll be sure to compare it fairly and honestly. ;-)

Oh, I didn't get a chance to thank you for finding my PC motherboard details earlier (the Quake2 thread). With your help I was able to bite the bullet and quickly pick a 512MB DIMM for the PC. It's much more responsive now (namely it no longer takes 3 minutes to load IE). Thanks!

[KennyR]

A typical Pegasos boot is around 28 seconds, but the OS itself will indeed boot in a very decent 2.6 seconds, the rest of the time is spent doing some nasty hardware tests or whatever, this should be fixed in Pegasos2.

My Pegasos takes 12 seconds to boot, from the moment I turn it on until Ambient is sitting front of me ready to use. I hear that OF is delayed by some hardware combinations, such as not plugging in a PS2 mouse, so maybe you have that problem.

Actually when I first installed MOS it only took 8 or so, but the boot has been slightly delayed by 30 datatypes, USB stack, catweasel floppy dosdrivers, TCP/IP stack, and a huge background pic. :-)

[KennyR]

Yes, Mysticview (and its libraries, guigfx and render) are fully native.

MysticView is incredibly fast on Pegasos, as is anything that uses datatypes (which are slow on Amiga systems, even emulated ones). If I use Picshow (on Aminet) on a dir full of 1024x768x32 pictures and hold down the downarrow key, the pictures load so fast one after the other that my screen becomes a blur of colour.