How good is the latest WinUAE?

[blakespot]

How compatible is the latest WinUAE?  Will it run most games / demos accurately?

Running it on a P4 3.2GHz with HyperThreading.

Thanks.




blakespot

[Damion]

blakespot wrote:
How compatible is the latest WinUAE?  Will it run most games / demos accurately?

Definitely. I use the old hardware all the time, yet I wouldn't be without a WinUAE install nearby. If your eyes are picky, you'll need to set up a 50 (or 100) Hz screenmode for perfect scrolling with PAL software (some things are more affected than others).

[AmiKit]

How compatible is the latest WinUAE?

I am tempted to say 100% but let's be realistic: it's 99.9%
:-)

[coldfish]

I dig the authentic floppy sounds.

[alexh]

coldfish wrote:
I dig the authentic floppy sounds.

A concept borrowed ironically from an Atari ST emulator.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

AmiKit wrote:

How compatible is the latest WinUAE?

I am tempted to say 100% but let's be realistic: it's 99.9%
:-)

I dare to disagree. Aspect correction and color isn't always correct.

[coldfire]

What I'm wondering is if UAE under linux or something would work as good.  I don't have any windoze boxes as I just sold my tower that had XP Pro on it.  I figured since I hadn't turned it on in almost a year I didn't need it.  I hate to build a computer just to put windoze on it just to emulate an amiga.  

[Tempest]

coldfire wrote:
What I'm wondering is if UAE under linux or something would work as good.  I don't have any windoze boxes as I just sold my tower that had XP Pro on it.  I figured since I hadn't turned it on in almost a year I didn't need it.  I hate to build a computer just to put windoze on it just to emulate an amiga.  

I'm also a Linux (Debian) only user and have E-UAE setup on my box/laptop. It's good but not as good as WinUAE. The x86 version of E-UAE has JIT, network and GFX card support.

There's a GUI to set things up but I find editing the .uaerc files directly better.

Most distro's have the latest E-UAE in their repo's.

IMHO E-UAE is good enough, I don't see a reason to setup a Windows box especially for WinUAE.

[Tempest]

BTW emulation with WinUAE or E-UAE is good but not as good as the real thing.

I only use an emulator to test thing's before I install it on my Amiga's. I've backed up the harddrives of my Amiga's and use them under UAE as hdf images.

Mounting Amiga drives with Linux is also very easy:

mount -t affs /dev/hd* /mnt/amiga (for FFS formatted drives)
mount -t asfs /dev/hd* /mnt/amiga (for SFS formatted drives if it's build in the kernel)

or edit /etc/fstab.

[alexh]

Tempest wrote:
BTW emulation with WinUAE or E-UAE is good but not as good as the real thing.

In what way?

[Tempest]

alexh wrote:

Tempest wrote:
BTW emulation with WinUAE or E-UAE is good but not as good as the real thing.

In what way?

One thing that I don't like is the mousepointer movement, it really isn't as smooth as on a real Amiga IMHO. It's a lot better with WinUAE than E-UAE but both have this.

On the other hand UAE does have lot's of cool things like 8MB chipmem or lots of fastmem and other things.

But let's face it, however good the emulation is, it's not a real Amiga. It's the same with other emulators the real hardware is just better, like Neogeo arcade, Atari800, Atari 2600, etc.

[blakespot]

Yea, I am primarily an OS X user (quad core Mac Pro and dual core Mac Book) but the UAE and E-UAE offerings there don't compare to WinUAE running on my P4 3.2GHz. I'm impressed.

I got the extended floppy sounds. One set is called "ST" - is that from an ST emulator?

I've long enjoyed ST emulators and have actual Amiga hardware (A2000 and A1200 tower '060) and Atari 520ST hardware at the house. Nothing beats the real metal, but nice to have a solid emulator.

Will WinUAE run most demos "very well" ?




blakespot

[sdyates]

Is the new version ready for Mac OS?

Just wondering...