UAE vs real A1200

[spirantho]

mikrucio wrote:
and yes you better believe this emulation has come a long way. and it will replace your amiga in the near future.

That bit made me laugh.

Trust me, UAE won't be replacing any of my Amigas any time soon. It does run on one of them though (the AmigaOne).

And to all those people saying how great WinUAE is and how if you get choppy sound and stuff it's because it's not tweaked correctly, I say this:

1) My Amiga doesn't _need_ any settings to be tweaked. It just runs fine all the time, whether it be graphics or games or whatever.
2) How many times have you been using a real Amiga when all of a sudden the screen goes black and some horribly friendly dialogue box for a completely different app comes up?
3) UAE is a pig to set up for full-screen displays of the right size and right aspect ratios. I like to be able to switch between 1280x1024x32 to AGA PAL 320x256 and still have everything look right _without_ twiddling settings.
4) I like playing around with odd hardware. Can't fit a Zorro III card in a Windows box.

I have yet to see WinUAE run as smoothly as my Amiga on any system (and I've seen some quite good systems). I know my Amiga was way more expensive (Cyberstorm PPC, 68060@50/604e@200, Voodoo III) but that's not the argument. WinUAE is good - but it's not thatgood.

Any of my Amigas be replaced by WinUAE (which, incidentally, I do use regularly)? No thanks.

[spirantho]

In the end, what it all comes down to is how one wants to use the AMiGA. In some cases I prefer WinUAE, in some cases i prefer the real thing. They both have advantages.

Absolutely. That's why it annoys me when someone says that UAE is better than an Amiga in every way - it's simply not. They both are good for their own purposes.

Incidentally, you can get round your problem with RTG/AGA if you buy a graphics card with a pass-through. I ran my A4000 on a CV64 for a while and that worked fine.

If only WinUAE supported AmigaOS 4... then it would be better still, and I could develop for it when away from home. That's the real problem with UAE for me... it's emulating 11 year old technology, while the new Amigas are far in advance of that and still moving. UAE is the past, the (new) hardware has a future, and everybody solely using UAE is stuck in the past while we're trying to push on into the future....