Can AmiMasterGear, etc run on A4000?

[therail]

Hi Can the AmiEmulators (ie AmiMasterGear) run at normal speed on an Amiga 4000? Without tunning too fast or slow? What is your configuration? Many thanks for your time!

[therail]

well on my csmk3 setup it runs far too fast. even with just the accelerator and ran installed it runs far too fast. never had this trouble with the b1260 on the a1200!

[therail]

@adolescent

What is the full spec of the amiga and what amimastergear settings do you use?
 

[therail]

Hi

keropi maybe you can try your emu with you a4000 on an stock hd with no addition s/w installed and maybe try cs060 and ppc with maybe no gfx card installed.

[therail]

@adolescent

Thanks much for that. do you have any on board a4000 mob o fast mem? i think i have 16mb. as well as the 128mb on my csmk3. wierd for me as i have identical setup to you.

[therail]

@adolescent

also do you disable your cpu cache or boot with no start up sequence? what is your csmk3 config (concerning ram maybe) at the boot screen?!

[therail]

hmmm seems like we're making progress. i need to try this on ym a4000. maybe i should take the mobo ram out my a4000. is a4000 mobo ram important at all?

[therail]

AMIGAZ wrote:
Just tested it on my A1200T (specs are in my sig.) I got over 70fps and when I press any button on my Competition Pro Cd32 pad it exits the game back to the Amimastergear menu...nice bugfree piece of software  :lol:

if you are using on a ppc a1200 then it wont work at all.

[therail]

thats weird. when i tried amimastergear on my bppc is ran way too fast and kept quitting to the menu screen when i pressed a button.

back on topic more now. i will try the above settings later on. has anyone who tried those settings getting around 70fps now? shall i remove the a4000 mobo ram? what are the csmk3 boot settings for you?

[therail]

Right. I finally got a chance to investigate this thing. i followed adolescent settings under AmiMasterGear, and they indeed make a difference! Running at around 70fps - although unfortunately, not consistantly around that mark. Along with adolescent AmiMasterGear settings, i also done under the settings Options/Video Emulation:

Sprite Priorities=on
Background Priorities=on
Realtime Scroll Refresh=on
Realtime Palette Refresh=on

The above also slows the emulation down a tiny bit, but again not consistantly. On a sidenote, changing the Screenmode to PAL made it go too fast again (around 250fps). Next i changed my CSMK3 settings to see if that helps. Here are the settings i done:


CSMK3 Settings:

RAM: 70ns RAM
SYSTEM: NoMapRom - SuperScaler=off - BranchCache=off - Writebuffer=off

Tried AmiMastergear again and more of the same! it was a bit more consistant this time. But still not fully consistant enough for my liking.

So i ask whether anyone else can get any closer than that. also has anyone with an a4000 setup got it dead on 50/60fps?

[therail]

adolescent wrote:
Mine seems to jump around at the beginning, but once in the game it's pretty consistent.  In Sonic the Hedgehog (SMS) it hangs out right at 70-71.

yeah it mostly is like that for me. trying them csmk3 helps a little too find. i suppose if can live with that, but i may try a couple of other stuff before i am through (for keropis sake more than mine! ). i suppose it wouldn't make a difference running a bit of patch software that would slow the system down - considering this emu "bangs" the hardware. did you try amimsx? what was that like?

[therail]

yeah keropi that is a good idea but who could do it?! i think these emus are written in an easy programming language so it shouldn't be too hard for an experienced amigan. the sources are on aminet.

i tried turning off cpu cache but it makes the emu too slow. if i put framskip on auto it runs at almost full speed but then is choppy.

[therail]

BUMP!