I should clarify - what I wrote was wrong. You're right about graphics - both emulated Amiga graphics and any graphics translations between VirtualBox or WINE and the host OS impact performance, but I have that set to minimum (skip frames, turn off collision detection, et cetera) because I don't use graphics for more than just a text screen and plan to run them headless. Likewise, there's very little CPU overhead for a guest OS in VirtualBox, so that shouldn't be an issue. This is how BSDs can be faster at running GNU/Linux programs than GNU/Linux sometimes. This translation adds minimal overhead, if it's like GNU/Linux ABI emulation on NetBSD / FreeBSD.
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Ral-clan: WINE doesn't really emulate as much as it just calls native OS code via translation from Windows code. Oldsmobile_Mike: Yes, emulation is not great, and not being able to use JIT makes a huge difference. Some of these are much faster than the others.ĭanbeaver: I have an Amiga 1200 with a 60 MHz m68060, and I'd like my emulations to be at least as fast.
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I hear that some Linux users install WinUAE under WINE because it's faster/better than FS-UAE (even though WinUAE takes a bit of a performance hit being run through WINE).īesides using JIT, your emulation speed will be GREATLY increased if you use the special WinUAE Picasso 96 driver from withing AmigaOS when running in RTG modes.Īlso, try playing with the graphics rendering modes in the FS-UAE settings. I therefore keep a dual boot system and one of the few reasons I have to boot anymore into Windows is to use WinUAE. Also, it has problems with the Intel graphics chip on my motherboard (WinUAE under Windows XP didn't) and so the rendering of RTG screens has some latency and choppiness (I can see a lag in the mouse pointer movement) whereas WinUAE under Windows was absolutely perfect. FS-UAE only recently properly implemented JIT. While it's not bad - it's certainly not as fast as WinUAE. I have since switched to Linux and now my only option is to use FS-UAE. I absolutely loved it - and I was using it for productivity work like Lightwave, PageStream, MIDI music sequencing, ImageFX, etc. On my old single core PentiumD computer I was able to get an amazingly smooth, super fast Amiga experience (faster than 060) using WinUAE. I believe that FS-UAE is based off of WinUAE emulation code anyway, so FS-UAE is always catching up to WinUAE. FS-UAE is not bad, but WinUAE is just a little better. In my experience, WinUAE is faster than FS-UAE.