UAE vs real A1200

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I run OctaMED on WinUAE, on my 3Ghz machine it works like a dream. But I still keep my Miggies as nothing beats the actual sound of a real amiga. :-D

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mikrucio wrote:
winuae is great. however no matter how fast cpu you have
games that scroll wont look smooth (directx is crap!).
also full implementation of AGA is not what i call %100 the real amiga is way better in that regard. the real amiga has better sound aswell which is unusual because it's only 8bit!

I'm not sure what your PC set up is... but on my old Athlon 600Mhz running XP and the latest WinUAE with Vsync switched on, the Screen scrolling is as smoths as any of my Amigas...

I'm having a hard time believeing all the UAE bashing that's going on right now... If you jsut take the time to tweek the CPU/Chipset timing in UAE (not to mention adjusting the chipset features to meet the requirements of the game) you will get a faster system than any Amiga.

I though you Amiga boys like to play with settings? Well play!!!

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Desolator wrote:
Ummm, so all of you run WinUAE without any lagging in sound at all?

Somehow I don't find that true, or maybe just my 1.8Ghz machine is too slow at emulating.

If you're getting lag on the Audio, then blame it on your crappy sound card.

My Edirol FA-101 (on a firewire link), gives me no lag at all.

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SHADES wrote:
@mikrucio

Actually, using the spare bits in the Paula chip used to set volume, you can trick up the sound to play 14 bit from memory. Takes a bit of tricky programming, but is most certainly possible. not bad for an 80's computer  :-D

That's called subranging... you take two channels, say 1 and 2 (that have the same physical output), then set one channel to 63 (maximum volume) and the other to a volume of 1. Then you play the upper 8bits of the 16bit sample through the maximum volume channel and the lower 8bits through the minimum volume channel.

It was cool 16 years ago, now it's just dumb.