How good is the latest WinUAE?

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coldfire wrote:
What I'm wondering is if UAE under linux or something would work as good.  I don't have any windoze boxes as I just sold my tower that had XP Pro on it.  I figured since I hadn't turned it on in almost a year I didn't need it.  I hate to build a computer just to put windoze on it just to emulate an amiga.  

I'm also a Linux (Debian) only user and have E-UAE setup on my box/laptop. It's good but not as good as WinUAE. The x86 version of E-UAE has JIT, network and GFX card support.

There's a GUI to set things up but I find editing the .uaerc files directly better.

Most distro's have the latest E-UAE in their repo's.

IMHO E-UAE is good enough, I don't see a reason to setup a Windows box especially for WinUAE.

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BTW emulation with WinUAE or E-UAE is good but not as good as the real thing.

I only use an emulator to test thing's before I install it on my Amiga's. I've backed up the harddrives of my Amiga's and use them under UAE as hdf images.

Mounting Amiga drives with Linux is also very easy:

mount -t affs /dev/hd* /mnt/amiga (for FFS formatted drives)
mount -t asfs /dev/hd* /mnt/amiga (for SFS formatted drives if it's build in the kernel)

or edit /etc/fstab.

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alexh wrote:

Tempest wrote:
BTW emulation with WinUAE or E-UAE is good but not as good as the real thing.

In what way?

One thing that I don't like is the mousepointer movement, it really isn't as smooth as on a real Amiga IMHO. It's a lot better with WinUAE than E-UAE but both have this.

On the other hand UAE does have lot's of cool things like 8MB chipmem or lots of fastmem and other things.

But let's face it, however good the emulation is, it's not a real Amiga. It's the same with other emulators the real hardware is just better, like Neogeo arcade, Atari800, Atari 2600, etc.