Amiga emulator ppc mac
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It appears that the MorphOS team is pushing forward with another fine release of their PowerPC, Amiga-like OS: 3.5.1. Here’s the original WinUAE2.9.0 thread where the PPC stuff originated.Īnd here is the initial posting of the good news. However, today, August 14, 2014, he posted two images about his next beta: There were issues, crashes, blank screens, etc, and Toni continued to deny that he would work specifically for that. The question was always if OS4.x and MorphOS for classics would work.
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However, the long-abandoned PearPC source code (the original MAC OSX emulator that was cut short when Apple jumped to Intel), provided a ready-made, drop in PPC cpu.Īt first, it didn’t work, then slowly, WarpOS, and later PowerUP software began to work. QEMU was looked at and passed up, as it was harder to bring the code changes over than he wanted to do. However, he’s apparently the kind that wants to make his product the best it can be, probably likes a challenge and saw a jump in development donations specifically tied to PowerPC emulation. He’s said for a very long time he doesn’t like PowerPC and wasn’t interested. Well, word got out, and people started asking if he was going to add PowerPC Emulated CPU to those emulated PPC boards. It finally happened! A few weeks ago, Toni Wilen, current maintainer (and all around extremely smart guy) of WinUAE, decided he wanted to add CyberStorm/Blizzard/CyberStormPPC/BlizzardPPC and WarpEngine RAM configurations to WinUAE (simulating RAM accessible on those boards). I plan to build a dedicated PowerPC AmigaOS4.1 system based around this emulator. I am not sure if this is an actual frequency test or it interpolated it via some hardware ID found but it thought I was running a 604 at 233Mhz:Īgain, I’m very grateful to Toni and Frode and anyone else involved in this.
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Will update when that happens:įinally, I started up Ranger to see what Mhz speed it determined. Not quite as quick as using Chrome on the host laptop but again, okay. I also noticed browsing in NetSurf was very comfortable. Again, no superspeed here, but acceptable.
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During the MUI4 archive download, I got this screengrab, showing decent speeds. I can’t help but wonder if this speed limitation is part of the vice driver…įinally, I started up netspeedometer, and ran it while running AmiUpdate. I then ran the same test on the host machine, very fast speeds: On a very fast LAN environment, the emulated system achieve okay speeds (slow DSL speeds, but acceptable): The first was to use the Sysmon built-in network bandwidth test. In nearly every case, the Emulated environment was slower. I ran Ragemem first, and then compared it to 4 other configurations:Ĭomparing to my AmigaOne XE G3 (70% faster):Ĭomparing to an Amiga4000 with the fastest CyberStormPPC accelerator board (273% faster):Ĭomparing to an Acube Sam 460 1150 (AmigaOne500) – (19% faster):Īnd finally, the ultimate NextGen hardware: A-Eon x1000 1.8Ghx G4 (23% slower):
I startup up SysMon and chose the Benchmark tab:
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I then ran NetSurf PPC to download Sysmon to run some benchmarks (I’ll make another post later about setting up internet connection). The SCSI change caused the OS to load faster under emulation than on either of my G3 AmigaOne computers. Toni increased the size of the QEMU PPC JIT cache, which he said made a big speeed difference. It doesn’t seem to be something the user can set. The next speed up is in the internal settings to interface with the QEMU PPC portion.
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I used the previous install of OS4.1 to an HDF file but it was on the IDE connection.ġ) in the WinUAE setup, click "CD & Hard Drives"Ģ) On my previous setup, I had the HDF file on the IDE:0 controller, double click that lineģ) This brings up the Hardfile Settings window, change the controller to "Accelerator Board SCSI" The first speed up comes from using a harddrive file (hdf) connected to the virtual accelerator SCSI connection. Unzip all the files into the same folder as the winuae.exe file. To get the QEMU part working you, need a base qemu dll and several support files. In the past few days, a new, beta 16 build had become available. There was a marginal increase with my laptop and definitely much closer to the real NextGen hardware, it still didn’t feel like we were there yet. While I did download and test it, I didn’t see a huge speed increase. Their first release with the PPC JIT code was 2900b15. So, Toni (WinUAE developer), and Frode (FS-UAE developer), have collaborated to get QEMU’s PowerPC core code working.