[iPAQ] Amiga Emulator (Was: Wish List)

On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 08:51:32AM -0500, Tom_Kirksey@ingersoll-rand.com wrote:
> I hope you get xmess to run. I have a whole rack full of Amiga 500 games
> that I would *LOVE* to run on my iPaq!

Hello Tom,

As far as i know, the Amiga emulation of mess is incomplete.
On my pc xmame-0.37b6.1 doesn't even get to the hand holding
the floppy.

I have tried Bernd Schmidts Un*x Amiga Emulator UAE instead.
(see http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/) UAE is not prepared
for cross compilation but with a few tweaks it builds fine.
There is an executable and a config file on the skiffcluster
in ~guest/stb.

A few problems remain:

 o You can play games, but you need a lot of patience because
   the emulator is running (at least) about two times slower
   than a real Amiga.
 o Because the sound is also 2 times slower you will have to
   turn it off.
 o Mouse emuation is not very accurate. This can be quite
   annoying. The problem is not the touch screen itself but
   the mapping to a mouse.
 o Although you can scribble into the emulator window a virtual
   Amiga keyboard would be more practical.

It should be possible to make UAE run in real time by converting
part of the m68k interpreter from C to ARM assembly. This is
also interesting because UAEs m68k interpreter is adopted by
the Palm OS Emulator POSE.

--stb
Received on Wed Oct 11 16:36:05 2000