#Amiga emulator mac full#
My 75 MHz Pentium did reach full speed, though the emulation of the VIC-II and SID wasn't fully accurate by that point, in 1996. My 66 MHz 486 was able to come pretty close to emulating a 64 at full speed, in 1994 or so. A bridgeboard, which had a real 8088, 80286, or 386sx CPU, gave much better performance.
#Amiga emulator mac software#
In the same vein, there were software PC emulators for the Amiga, but their speed was far too slow for anything more than emergency use.
#Amiga emulator mac mac#
Software emulation is roughly between 5 and 20 times slower than the hardware it emulates (emulators like the ShapeShifter 68K Mac emulator for the Amiga are an exception to this, because they do not need to emulate a CPU or custom chips). I didn't think highly enough of it to do anything more than try out a couple of things and then move on. Possibly, this will mean 'Amiga Forever' in the literal sense. SID emulation was decent VIC-II worked if the software behaved but most of the undocumented tricks didn't work well. I tried out A64 on my 0, and the emulation still wasn't as fast as the real thing. The 68000 at 7 MHz just wasn't fast enough to emulate the 6502 at acceptable speed. I wanted to get a Mac emulator, but was never able to get the ROMs at a decent price.Ħ4 emulation was much more difficult. Apple certainly didn't want them getting into the hands of Amiga and ST owners for emulation purposes.
About the only way to get them was off a junked Mac motherboard, but in those days, junked boards usually got refurbished and reused. The only thing that kept it from being more popular was the difficulty in acquiring Mac ROMs to put on the board. As I recall, it was a little faster than an equivalent Mac. On occasion when using multiple drives a game might ask for you to insert the next disk (disk 5+) into the last drive used (df3) this is not possible as the disk changer only mounts to df0, in this case you should manually disable/eject drives df1 to df3 when entering advanced mode after running a game in database mode.Mac emulation worked rather well, because, as you noted, the CPU architecture was the same. * If you are running a game that use's multiple disks while in database mode it will only mount the first disk on df0 the rest will be in the disk changer list and when selected will mount the chosen disk to df0.Īfter running a game in database mode and then going into advanced mode if you re-run the game it will mount the first 4 disks on df0 to df3, If the game you are playing reads disks from external drives df1 to df3 this will save a bit of disk swapping if the game does not read from external drives you can still load the required disk into df0 from the disk changer list, also if the game has more than 4 disks disks 5+ will be required to be loaded to df0 from the disk changer list. or emulated to set keyboard keys for player 2. * If you wish to play a 2 player game you will need to switch in to advanced mode goto ports and change the mouse control to a joystick for control pad etc. * While in advanced mode if you click/tap on the amiga logo at the top of the workbench screen you will be prompted with a warning that you will loose your current settings and if you confirm will be returned to the database screen.
* When you have previously loaded a game/demo in database mode then change to advanced mode your previous selection is remembered so the previous system used will be preselected and the previous game (adf/hdf) will remain mounted. The emulator has 2 modes of operation, The first "Database Mode" is the default mode that the emulator uses when loading/refreshing the page, The second mode is "Advanced Mode" that is available after pressing the Config button.ĭatabase Mode: This is the mode to use when just wanting to play a 1P game or a demo without having to set anything up, Just select what you want to run and select your input control/keys or use default (arrows/shift/ctrl) and press start, The emulator will select the system type, rom etc.Īdvanced Mode: In this mode you can also select games/demos from the database but you are also able to change emulator settings such as system type, cpu, ram, rom, video, audio & ports, You can also load/mount your own amiga files and your own roms.
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