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Offline Damion

Re: UAE vs real A1200
« on: January 14, 2005, 09:00:47 AM »
Tomas is right, I have found a small number of AGA demos that aren't quite right. For the most part however, it's spot-on. (Many demos and games aren't totally smooth on  real amigas, either.) The sound quality is as good or better, but much of it really comes down to your hardware, and how well the emulator is configured for the given task. Many (but not all) instances of poor/choppy graphics performance are due to some setting that needs to be tweaked.

Personally, I prefer WinUAE in almost every way, and have no desire to fire-up the originals (though I keep my 500 and 1200 for nostalgic/collector purposes). It's super-fast, easily customized, you can flick back and forth instantly between Windows and AOS, and it runs about 95% of the things I've tried flawlessly. It's nice to fire up a little Jet Pilot at full detail and framerate (perfectly smooth), on a screen that doesn't make my eyes bleed...something no real amiga could ever manage.  

Is it 100% perfect?? No...but IMO, setup correctly on decent hardware, the advantages far outweigh the negatives.
 

Offline Damion

Re: UAE vs real A1200
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2005, 09:04:31 AM »
@TjLaZer

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TjLaZer wrote:
On my 3.2GHz PC WinUAE reports it is a 700MHz 68040!!! (With a good benchmark program)  Thats with full sound enabled... ADoom and Quake run great on it too! :banana:


Just out of curiosity, which benchmark program did you use?

Thanks
 

Offline Damion

Re: UAE vs real A1200
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2005, 09:07:55 AM »
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No - my XP2500 (overclocked to XP3000+) gives me laggy sound with all versions of WinUAE so far. I never considered that it was a dodgy sound system (I'm using the onboard n-Force) -


That may be your problem, n-force audio isn't very good, especially if you're using the analog outs.

I get great sound using a cheap SB Live! card with about 95% of the things I try, on occasion I'll have to mess with the soundbuffer but that's about it.

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What i experience can best be described as a dropped frame. The gfx might go quite smooth for a while, but then it suddently jerkes a bit. I have experienced this with pc games/demos aswell...


Tomas that's really strange...it sounds to me like you may have a driver issue, though I entirely agree with you that some things in WinUAE are definately not perfect, you shouldn't be getting random stuttering, nor with PC games and demos.

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