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Offline Thomas

Re: Amithlon2 vs Winuae
« on: October 10, 2002, 10:10:56 AM »

Ok, let's overplay a little:

If you like WinUAE, you will hate Amithlon. If you like your A500 or A1200 like it was in the 90s you will like WinUAE and hate Amithlon. If you like your Amiga because it is expanded like hell, never ever using any chip ram, you will like Amithlon.

Amithlon does not emulate an Amiga. It does only emulate the 68K processor. Anything else is done by AmigaOS. So everything you want to use must be supported by AmigaOS. You will have difficulties running your graphics card, your sound card, your serial modem, your parallel printer, your network card. You won't be able to use your USB devices, your ISDN card or whatever hardware is there without an AmigaOS driver.

Compared to the Windows/WinUAE combination Amithlon is good for nothing but programming Amiga software. Even this is more funny on WinUAE for the following reasons.

With WinUAE you can combine the benefits of both, Windows and AmigaOS, on the same machine. You can use Windows to connect to your broadband internet provider, you can stream radio using RealPlayer. At the same time, you can fetch your E-Mails using YAM because WinUAE shares Windows' internet connection.

WinUAE does emulate a complete Amiga with any chipsets and lots of expansions. Maintaining different configurations you can use WinUAE for anything an Amiga is good for, from retro-gaming to running modern applications. Amithlon can only do the latter.

Bye,
Thomas