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Offline fishy_fiz

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Re: The Big Uae-Jit Blog
« on: July 04, 2011, 02:30:57 AM »
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That is what I'm hoping for. It really really pains me that the only present way to really enjoy Amiga emulation (as blasphemous as that is) is via Windows. With JIT we should have that speed boost necessary to run a virtual Amiga environment at speeds that surpass our real Amigas. Hopefully some time after this is finished, someone will come along and add internet support to UAE as well. Another thing the WinUAE guys can hold over us... :/


I know youve had some issues with it, but AROS x86 uae/euae/j-uae has had jit for many years. Unfortunately an ATOM is very weak so results still arent great (probably something akin to what sam users will end up with once jit is enabled). Try AROS euae on anything intended for the desktop and aros uae runs very nicely. Not as well as Winuae, but far, far in excess of the other "amiga" options currently. I currently usee janus UAE on AROS to suppliment my 40mhz '040 a1200, as it runs much, much faster and the extra speed comes in handy sometimes.

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I was, and still am quite happy to see this. Finally a good 90%+ of things should run acceptably in uae for ppc ppl, which is obviously a big thing for a decent chunk of the amiga world (even winuae on machines 5x or more as fast as the fastest ppc machines occasionally needs more grunt (yes it does, I've been using it for a good 15 years, please dont suggest I need to configure it correctly))
Despite this though, is it just me, or does that blog contain lots of words to say allmost nothing? :)   Oodles of text that couldve been written in a sentence, "had trouble with cross compilers so I wrote some test code" pretty much covers it all :)
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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 Big Uae-Jit Blog
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2011, 02:36:18 AM »
There was no particular effort put into aspre ones. Its mostly just a coincidence that its made up of supported hardware. On top of this 2 of the more vocal AROS followers have them so you'd have heard them "promote" them (for lack of a better word). Personally Id never touch an Atom processor for use with AROS. Being that the only thing making them competitive with even a 1ghz p3 is thier ability to run 2 threads (HT), and that AROS doesnt support this youre left with the raw grunt of something akin to a 733mhz celeron (significantly slower than a g3 even). Sure, it works, and the OS runs nicely on it, but theres simply not enough grunt and you'll be left wanting for a lot of software.

Ive seen the aspire ones referred to as the a1200 of AROS, but a600 is a better parallel.
Fast enough to run run the OS nicely, but you'll really need to be pick selectively with software and you'll need to make compromises.
Running on an atom vs. pretty much any other x86 hardware in the last 10 years will be like chalk and cheese.
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.