Amiga Hardware information - A1200 & A4000 IDE

[Piru]

I might have a look at the UAE sources.

If UAE uses the standard Amiga ROMs (not special ones made just for it), then there must be some simulated hardware for the ROM to access.

Good idea so far.

The ROMs would acces the registers of the Amiga's hardware (scsi, ECS, AGA), I would have thought these would be present on a UAE system.

ECS, AGA: yes
SCSI: no

I suppose it mught use something custom, but too custom and the ROMs wouldn't work with it, that's my line of thought at the moment.

UAE doesn't emulate any SCSI or IDE interface on custom register level. UAE does, however, provide HD access on device and filesystem level.

This doesn't help you, though.

[srg86]

Well, if there's no MMU emulation, then it's pretty academic  :-(

srg

[Piru]

According to this, even on 030 and 040 emulation, it doesn't emulate the MMU.

There's a MMU patch available for UAE, though no idea how well it works.

It was discussed a bit in "UAE w/mmu patch...any success compiling?" -thread.

[srg86]

From all the places I've read, it's not very good. That leaves me with the idea of buying an Amiga or two.

I used to have an A1200 years ago, I might get one of those (cheap and plentyfull in my native land the UK) and then give it a hard drive and accelerator (if it doesn't allready have one). Or I could go the same route as I hav efor the PC and get the widest range of old and new hardware possible (I have 5 PCs; 386 -> Athlon XP). In this case, my best bet would be an A3000 and an A4000 but they were'nt that popular (the UK saw the Amiga 500 and 1200 as mearly games machines, I used my Amiga as my main desktop machine). There are A3/4000's going fairly often in europe but I'm not sure if the PSUs in these Amiga's would need replacing with UK spec ones.

I should still pay homage to my A1200 as it's what got me started in computers BTW Thanks Amiga!

srg

srg