Re: [iPAQ] Amiga Emulator (Was: Wish List)

As a native ARM assembly programmer (coming from Archimedess)
it would be a pleasure to do the C -> Assembly conversion,
if someone introduces me into the general C/Assmebly interfaces
in Unix.

Dirk Engling

> 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
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Received on Thu Oct 12 04:51:35 2000