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Re: Pros and Cons of Amithlon type systems
« on: June 08, 2011, 04:21:29 AM »
Enlighten me, as I wasn't part of the community for its heyday and can't find a lot of description on just what the heck it is. As near as I can make out, it's an x86-based Amiga emulator that runs on bare metal, rather than inside an OS?

Assuming this is correct: I don't really see why I'd want this. The numbers I've found seem impressive (450MHz 040 on a 1GHz x86? Nice.) But removing it from the context of a host operating system seems to lose the main advantage of an emulator (easily installed and operated side-by-side with a modern operating system) without approaching the coolness factor of custom hardware.

(Also, it sounds like it doesn't support the chipset? That's...pretty weak, really. But that may be old information - like I said, Google isn't telling me a lot.)
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