How Long Until We See Uae4All? (Amiga Emulator)

[MartyB]

Hi guys,

New to the Caanoo and loving it. Thanks to all the developers for all the hard work! When do you think we will see UAE4ALL? It's all i need to complete my Caanoo. I know we can get it through Gringe, but i heard it's not that good and it's better to wait for the proper Caanoo version?

Martin

 

[crow_riot]

patience is the key here:

http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?/topic/59268-amiga-port-still-needed/page__view__findpost__p__947211

 

[MartyB]

Excellent.

 

[Reesy]

I'm making progress but the touch screen mouse emulation is still playing hard to get. Uae4all appears to have 2 modes for mouse emulation, "dont care" mode and "follow sprite" mode.

In "Dont care" mode, Uae4all just monitors which why you move the mouse and then moves the emulated amiga pointer is the same general direction. The position of the amiga mouse pointer very quickly moves out of sync with your position on the caanoo touchscreen. It all works until you take the stylus of the touch screen, when you put it back down again you are screwed.

In "follow sprite" mode Uae4all monitors your position on the Caanoo touch screen, it then moves the amiga hardware sprite used for the mouse pointer to the same position. This works brilliantly, however it only works for Amiga games which acually use the hardware sprite. If the game does not then the amiga mouse pointer just sits in the middle of the screen doing bugger all.

At the moment I can't see why I can not get "Dont Care" mode working better, so I'm going through the source code to see what I'm missing.

Another issue is that the performance has slowed for some reason, my original builds seemed lots faster. So I need to get to the bottom of that as well. I'll *probably* upload a WIP version later today, so you can see where I am at the moment.

Later
Reesy

 

[BAFelton]

Great to see you're working on it.

On every version of UAE4ALL (Wiz, Pandora), there's always the problem of the stylus.

On the Pandora version, there's a little trick here : http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?/topic/54915-uae4all-additions/page__st__495

 

[MartyB]

Thanks for the update Reesy! Very kind of you and thanks for working on this.

 

[kayuz]

great! i'll wait until you release a WIP release! THX!

 

[Akabei]

Release everything you coded so far, reesy.
Nobody here would mind to be a beta (or even alpha) tester.
Every work for the community wiil be appreciated.

 

[Reesy]

http://reesy.gp32x.de/caanoo/uae4all.zip
http://reesy.gp32x.de/caanoo/uae4all-caanoo-0.8.0-src.zip

There you go, it should keep you going for abit. Let me know if you are having probems. Some basic notes are below.

Usage

extract uae4all.zip
Copy everything to the apps folder on your Caanoo SD card
Run uae4all.gpe
Use "Select Image Disk" option and browse for an Amiga disk image ( *.adf )
Select the adf and press B
Use the "Run (Start)" option

Amiga emulation will now start

Press L to switch between input modes

In Mouse emulation mode
HELP1 = Mouse button 1
X = Mouse button 1
HELP2 = Mouse button 2
B = Mouse button 2

Touchscreen = mouse movement
Joystick = mouse movement

In Joystick emulation mode
Joystick = Joystick ...duh
B = joystick fire button

Loading a new game
------------------

Press Home to return to the menu
Use "Select Image Disk" option and browse for an Amiga disk image ( *.adf )
Select the adf and press B
Use "Reset R" option

Amiga emulation will now start

 

[BAFelton]

Don't forget to copy the kickstart 1.3.rom in the uae4all directory and rename it kick.rom

 

[MartyB]

Thanks very much! Looking forward to trying this out.

 

[Akabei]

http://reesy.gp32x.de/caanoo/uae4all.zip
http://reesy.gp32x.de/caanoo/uae4all-caanoo-0.8.0-src.zip

There you go, it should keep you going for abit. Let me know if you are having probems. Some basic notes are below.

Usage

extract uae4all.zip
Copy everything to the apps folder on your Caanoo SD card
Run uae4all.gpe
Use "Select Image Disk" option and browse for an Amiga disk image ( *.adf )
Select the adf and press B
Use the "Run (Start)" option

Amiga emulation will now start

Press L to switch between input modes

In Mouse emulation mode
HELP1 = Mouse button 1
X = Mouse button 1
HELP2 = Mouse button 2
B = Mouse button 2

Touchscreen = mouse movement
Joystick = mouse movement

In Joystick emulation mode
Joystick = Joystick ...duh
B = joystick fire button

Loading a new game
------------------

Press Home to return to the menu
Use "Select Image Disk" option and browse for an Amiga disk image ( *.adf )
Select the adf and press B
Use "Reset R" option

Amiga emulation will now start

Whoohoo, thx a lot reesy.
Unfortunately, i don´t have any time for a tryout on monday, but i will on the following days.
I´ll send you my experiences here, if you like to.

 

[BAFelton]

Thanx for it !

Shadow of the Beast I runs quite well, need to play with the settings to make it smooth.
There are many games to try

 

[SuperMarcoVer]

Thank you very much! Gonna give it a try when i'm home.

 

[kayuz]

WOWW!!! THX Reesyy!!! It work near perfectly but if you release an update i'll be happy, for example the touchscreen not work very well

 

[coldfish]

Woo-hoo! Amiga love for the Caanoo!

Thanks times-a-millionty Reesy!

 

[qbertaddict]

Woo-hoo! Amiga love for the Caanoo!

Thanks times-a-millionty Reesy!

This runs great nice and smooth at 750. Im doing a video of it now. It will be on my channel in the next hour or so. Reesy you other emus are on the channel as well. Do you have a donation page?

 

[fishybawb]

Do you have a donation page?

Yeah, I'll donate if you do

Thanks a lot for this Reesy, it's great to see guys from the GP32/2X days are still around and contributing their work.

 

[kayuz]

reesy truly nice, unfortunately I can not start Patrician for the amiga ... Ugh!

 

[Reesy]

No donations for me thanks..its only a port. If you want to donate send cash to Chui who created the emulator in the first place

http://chui.dcemu.co.uk/uae4all.html

Later
Reesy