UAE for MorphOS

[ptek]

Hi all,

A few days ago I was surprised with the announcement of the EFIKA-5K2 mini board. As far I understood, it can run morphos.

Today I visited the Aminet and I just read that a version of UAE (e-uae0.8.29-WIP3) was uploaded.

The EFIKA board seemed a cool thing just to run an Amiga like OS (morphOS) and why not a bit of Debian Linux (as long you don't mind push the 128MB RAM too much) but I always thought that I wouldn't be able to play most Amiga HW banging games.

But with UAE, well, it could be a nice thing. I could even use a TV-out gfx card on the board and play on TV !

Does anyone with morphos (on Pegasus or EFIKA) may tell me if this UAE is a good port ? You know, decent speed on most games an so on.

[ptek]

@amiga4001,

BTW how much did your pegasos cost you ?

[ptek]

Yes, it seems the efika will be not the right platform to run it a decent speed... Considering by the replies here that a Pegasos2 1GHz does it at the limit and efika has a lower speed CPU (400MHZ) and uses the same RAM (266MHz DDR) I'm not expecting much

JIT would be great.

Maybe running UAE on low-res modes and 22Khz sound would be possible. Is it possible to run UAE on Pegasos in full screen (not windowed)?

BTW is MOS free for those who buy Pegasos and efika (when available for the latter) ?

[ptek]

The GP2X hendehld has UAE with only 64MB ram 200mhz cpu

Accordingly with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X , the GP2X have dual-core CPU at 200Mhz. Hmmm does the programs for it benefit of the dual core processing ?

The LCD display is 320x240. I don't know if the UAE emulator for it run at this resolution. If so, there should not be a problem for running no efika.

[ptek]

and this on YouTube that show off the gp2x UAE!

well, the video show us a choppy soound processing (during the theme song) and frame skipping during gameplay ... But one cannot conclude if the frame skipping is due to bad recording...

[ptek]

so you telling me that a 400Mhz PowerPC CPU with 128MB ram cant play game for a 14MHz 020 with 2MB Ram?

We are telling you that it maybe might not have the power to emulate smoothly an Amiga system (7Mhz or 14Mhz CPU, custom graphics chipset, custom audio system, and many hardware devices that makes the Amiga a complex piece of art). As Piru said, UAE does what is quite a complex task and believe me, years ago, an Amiga emulator on PC was thought as impossible.

[ptek]

So, buy one and show us. I need to see to believe.

[ptek]

@Paradox,

I really don't think Piru is being stupid, "au contraire". He is making a lot of sense, as always.  He's wise and says what he thinks, sometimes in a direct way.

Anyway, looking at your profile we can be assured that soon you're going to prove that we are all wrong about the efika.

[ptek]

he dont even know what an amiga virus is

recorded earlier

Wow dudes, I never laughted so much from an IRC log!
Bless the day this threat was started!
:-)

[ptek]

either very dark screen or blank screen or wierd colours.

Errr... These are the words from a man who doesn't even know the difference between a guru meditation and a virus ... or a hardware failure.

[ptek]

well you are as daft as the rest that dont believe me you muppetts

So if we are muppets, your name is Pinocchio for sure :-)