Amithlon VS WinUAE VS AROS question (OS 3.9 related)

[Amiga_Nut]

I'm guessing he wants PPC levels of speed for running system friendly non games apps using Amithlon or AROS and well I'm sure your average 2 or 3ghz x86 PC can emulate even AGA smoother than MOS or AOS on 1ghz PPC hardware.

So the question is after going through the nightmare of installing Amithlon and OS3.9 or AROS which is better for a PPC level of speed running stuff like Word Processors or web browsers? And which is actually more compatible with Amiga RTG type business/creative apps.

OS3.9 ontop of Amithlon or AROS?

[Amiga_Nut]

There are many, many things that could cause that.

For example, look at the NewTek TriCaster Studio. It can encode a web stream, record a stream of video, play back two streams of video plus switch 6 live video inputs all at once.  

That runs on Windows XP with pretty moderate hardware, but it's a well oiled machine.

There are any number of factors that could cause the video to skip on your system but I can guarantee you that it's not a Windows design flaw.

Think it is, I use the same program for video encoding as it is the best regardless of cost for FLV conversion and Windows ignores any setting of task priority to "low" on Task Manager and happily assigns 99-100% CPU to the encoder process

Also it works just as badly if you try to get Windows to play HD content better by telling it the CODEC process needs to be "high" or "realtime".

It's like those options are fake and don't actually do anything haha

[Amiga_Nut]

Sorry, I missed the question 1st time around,.... it varies, but for 68k amithlon is probably between 90 and 200% of the speed of winuae on the same hardware depending on what its doing. The heavier the load the faster amithlon is vs winuae. Video is much faster on amithlon, heavier multitasking there's a big difference, lame encoding, video enconding, emulation,etc. all much faster on amithlon.

I also disagree that its possible to build a faster uae box vs. amithlon box. Amithlon can be used on the very latest hardware (Ive used it on both an i5-760 and an i7-2600k as an experiment, although my actual amithlon box is an old 3.86ghz core2duo (which is typically still faster than winuae on my Windows box (the aforementioned i7-2600k) .

Do you mind if I ask you for advice on getting Amithlon and OS3.9 up and running on a spare Athlon XP machine? Sound and network not essential just want to try Amithlon and OS3.1 or OS3.9 (or both) on the machine