Winuae

[Topcat]

WinUAE actually has the sourcecode available at their homepage http://www.winuae.net

Now, with the source available, is Amiga possible on the GP32 ???

 

[Nitro]

No, the system is too complex to emulate well etc etc.

 

[Topcat]

...but it has already been ported to many platforms, including ARM based systems!
I really can't see why it could not be done for the GP32 also.. but then again, i'm not a coder :blink:

 

[trooper]

The better/faster option would be winfellow or fellow (dos), But is closed source (if i am correct) and has a crap load of assembler optimizations.

Trooper

 

[pip]

From what I know Winuae requires Directx, which is not really valid for the gp32 and hence would require a major rewrite.

 

[ColinR]

You don't know a lot then

WinUAE is simply the Windows version of UAE. UAE is available on a variety of platforms, but the Win32 platform is the lead platform (I think).

 

[Topcat]

WinUAE is simply the Windows version of UAE. UAE is available on a variety of platforms, but the Win32 platform is the lead platform (I think).

This was my impression too. And thats why i got that silly idea in the first place
I wish i knew how to code myself....

 

[thebluenewt]

I believe UAE has system specs way beyond the GP32...

 

[Ringo]

hmm... I thought Fellow was open-source. I can't directly confirm it, however I did do a little digging and found that WinFellows source is available at sourceForge.
It would seem likely that Fellow (dos, Linux or what-ever) is available too.

I personally believe that if low-end Amiga-emulation for the GP32 in any way would be possible, Fellow would be the emulator of choice and not UAE. I actually remember back at the time, when I played Turrican Amiga-emulation on my 90 mhz Pentium at frameskip 2... Those were the days...

If one were to port Fellow, I guess it might be an idea to look back for an earlier source, since I guess the processer-requirement most likely would be somewhat less...

Note: I'm only saying what I think. I don't really know that much about it.

Link to WinFellow at SourceForge (just to show that I did find that source... It's GNU-licence)

 

[khephren]

There's a load of threads about this guy's, they are worth hunting down. The general consensus was yes, it could be done- but you would need a lot af assembler to get it run at any speed, A direct port of UAE (which uses fairly bloaty C code) would run like a dog. Porting fellow would be pointless, it comprised of lot's of intel ASM, which is why it runs on a P75.

 

[blipped4]

WinUAE has a dos sidekick,A dos would be more simplistic,But redisgned with a nice simple step by step proceess With a simple GUI,Could be efficent,At the end of the day the "Pretty" Bitmaps arent effecting the game.

 

[khephren]

You would not port winUAE, you would probobly port generic UAE instead. That way you would not have to strip out all the windows related code. porting a non GUI version would not make it any faster, as all GUI stuff has to be ripped out anyway.