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Re: Amiga emulators: is it worth it?
« on: January 22, 2009, 06:12:31 PM »
@DiskDoctor

I see you mention Amiga OS4.x in a few of your posts in this topic. I appologise if youre aware of the following, but just incase youre not there are a few things to be aware of.  Firstly OS4.x wont run on any current emulator. Id be surprised if this didnt change in time, but I wouldnt hold my breath for it. Also in regards to the emulator built into OS4.x, it will only work for system friendly software. Ninety plus percent of old classic games simply wont work and will require running E-UAE ontop of OS4.x to get them working, which unfortunately isnt the best experience. Lack of both hardware power and jit cpu emulation makes even ocs/ecs software very sluggish on a Sam440 system (to a point of being next to useless in my opinion). Some of the A1 systems fare a little better, and will let you play a good portion of ocs/ecs games at a reasonable speed if you set it to skip a frame or 2 (and some stuff without frameskip). Very few AGA games however are usable on any of the current PPC/OS4.x systems ("usable" however is probably a little bit of personal taste, and some people may be happy with disabling sound and jerky movement). 68k software that doesnt directly hit custom chipset (mostly apps, but some of the more recent 68k amiga games too) will generally run quite nicely though, even on a Sam440.
Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.