In a message dated 14-Oct-96 16:43:09, Mark O'Neill wrote:

 AM>   UAE?  Let's em emulate a 7MHz 68000 at around 5MHz on *NIX machines. 

 MO> Hmm... have you seen it at all? Any idea how well it works? I reckon it'd
 MO> be
 MO> pretty unstable IMO seeing as though running 1.3 on my 4000 is fine until
 MO> I
 MO> bung some older software in it at which point my 4000 drops dead. ;-)

 AM> imagine running a few commodities (such as NewIcons) under WB3.1 on a
 AM> "slow" 68000?  [shudder]

 MO> Hmm... I can't imagine it somehow. ;^) Makes you wonder why you'd want to
 MO> run Amiga software though huh? Apart from Spot, DOpus and CEd, I can't
 MO> think
 MO> of anything off hand that you'd want to run on a clown. 

I saw a demo of UAE today, at the Amiga User's Group at Moorabbin. There
was a Dos version running on a Pentium 120 and a unix version running on a
486DX2-66.

The Dos one on the Pentium was crashing all the time, though while it was
working it seemed to more or less have the speed of an ordinary A500. 

The Unix one was more reliable, but slow. It was like an A4000 running
Window$ through PC-task.

Problems identified include: No Amiga floppy emulation (impossible on PC
hardware), ECS only (no current plans for AGA versions), 68000 only, long
file names on Unix version only (that would totally cripple an MS-Dos
version)....there were others I don't remember.

Unfortunately the guy demoing it took a long time to get it set up on his
machine, and he did not have time to transfer over to the PC's hard disk,
some appropriate software to use with it. We did, however display a JPEG
using ViewTek, and it took some 10-15 minutes to get a horrible 16 colour
image on the screen.

I think it needs a lot more work....and a Pentium Pro 200 to make it useful.

Regards,
David Myers,
NWAUG Secretary.

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