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Re: The great PC-Task thread
« on: September 23, 2010, 06:08:03 PM »
I used PC-Task a bit under Amithlon/os3.9 on an old athlon64 some years back when I was "amiga" only (ie. I had no Windows machines) and it was actually pretty usable. I used to play dos wing commander and it ran quite well. 68k dosbox was usable too, but pc-task was definately faster. The jit style emulation in pc task was erratic though on amithlon, would run normal speed with random bursts of extra speed to a point of it being a distraction in games. Mightve been possible to fix it, but I was happy enough without jit. Man, good times though  :)
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.
 

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Re: The great PC-Task thread
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2014, 01:25:08 AM »
I used to use pc-task a lot on amithlon. Was quite fun/novel playing Need for speed and Wing Commander3 under aos.
As for Dosbox with Voodoo emulation, I did indeed do a build for AROS. The patches only work against 0.72 though, so you both gain and lose some features.
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.
 

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Re: The great PC-Task thread
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2014, 06:57:04 AM »
Yeah, x86 codepath has had jit cpu emulation since 0.59 if I recall correctly.
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.