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Minimig: Dennis words on Samantha
Posted on 16-Nov-2006 10:30:30
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| "Yes, Samantha is definately one of *the* boards to run Minimig on.
Dennis"
Amiga Org Minimig Thread
I can't hold the breath to get a Sam440 board in my hands.
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Re: Minimig: Dennis words on Samantha
Posted on 16-Nov-2006 12:14:39
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ay ay! this sam thing is looking cooler every day.
wow, having an fully backwards compatible os4 machine is a QUITE wet
dream of mine! And now it seems that maybe one day then,
with SAM+MINIMIG... wow! WOW! _________________
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Re: Minimig: Dennis words on Samantha
Posted on 16-Nov-2006 12:32:41
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For the SAM, this could indeed be a good idea since E-UAE might be a bit sluggish on the 440.
With faster CPUs, I can't see an absolute necessity of a Minimig anymore (either as FPGA on-board or as a PCI-card), since UAE might be used for a near-perfect emulation. |
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Re: Minimig: Dennis words on Samantha
Posted on 16-Nov-2006 12:48:33
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Some kind of mixture with minimig and petunia would be nice, together those could make possible invisible classic amiga emulation in any case. |
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Re: Minimig: Dennis words on Samantha
Posted on 16-Nov-2006 14:13:00
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I think that some AGA hardware type can be only implemented via FPGA. Emulation of the AGA chipset will slow even an high end computer. Samantha is opening the roads to more complex hadware emulation of old Amiga chipset.
I want a Samantha board ASAP.
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Re: Minimig: Dennis words on Samantha
Posted on 16-Nov-2006 14:22:25
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| I think that some AGA hardware type can be only implemented via FPGA. Emulation of the AGA chipset will slow even an high end computer. |
Hmm, so my 3-year-old x86-box must be a "high-end computer" then (no problems/slow-downs in any 020/AGA-games). Hey, great! |
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Re: Minimig: Dennis words on Samantha
Posted on 16-Nov-2006 14:37:27
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But sometimes is not so easy to have a stable configuration.
However, i hope to see soon this little baby on Sam. _________________
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Re: Minimig: Dennis words on Samantha
Posted on 16-Nov-2006 15:38:48
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accurate AGA/060 emulation is quite resource hungry.
Try to emulate some AGA/060 demos to check it. for example "micromonster".micromonster
If you activate all AGA features required (include sync) to show the demo correctly (specially the part with black and red stripes and pac man images -check out screenshots 3 and 4 at ADA-) you will notice that it doesn't run as smooth as it should be expected. At least my pentium4/2.8Ghz with 768MB of ram has to work a lot and the movement is not as perfect as in my real 060. And if you leave all that features activated (that aren't used by all demos) and try to run other demo like SilkCut you will also notice that 060 speed is not reached due to having all AGA emulation features activated.
Some games/demos that use quarter pixel scrolling will probably cause problems too. Even on real amigas quarter pixel scroll requires a very good scandoubler that shows 1280/1440 pixels without skiping the pair pixels or a 15Khz monitor. _________________
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