Certain modern mobo still has ISA slot, which means you can install ISA sound card on modern mobo. One of them is Soyo SY-845PE; a Pentium 4 mobo with 3 ISA slots. So, you can have pure DOS running on Pentium 4, with sound. Now, how fast Amiga emulation would run on pure DOS system with fast CPU?

Nice. :) Wonder if there are some Amiga benchmarks you can run to see how your performance stacks up against real machines.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

Certain modern mobo still has ISA slot, which means you can install ISA sound card on modern mobo. One of them is Soyo SY-845PE; a Pentium 4 mobo with 3 ISA slots. So, you can have pure DOS running on Pentium 4, with sound. Now, how fast Amiga emulation would run on pure DOS system with fast CPU?

That would probably do the trick for DosUAE, but the idea is to use the same machine for early '90s DOS games too, so I don't know how well that would work...

UAE is sloooooow yet it's also the only DOS amiga emulator that's usable; forget about the 486 for anything Amiga related.

leileilol wrote:

UAE is sloooooow yet it's also the only DOS amiga emulator that's usable; forget about the 486 for anything Amiga related.

Well, maybe a 486 not, but what about a socket 7 with a MMX CPU around the 200-233 Mhz range, which can still be quite flexible in terms of slowdowns?
You would be able to play early 90's games both from DOS + Amiga.

You could probably play most OCS/ECS games on an MMX 233. I might give it a try tomorrow.

I used to mess around with Fellow (aka DOSFellow) years ago and i remember it being a decent enough Amiga emulator for DOS... Although it's nothing compared to UAE these days (a bit basic in comparison). I think Fellow could only emulate OCS and maybe ECS hardware though.

Because of the 50/60Hz I always thought consoles would be the perfect system for Amiga emulation. Not sure if there is anything out there.

The Pentium 200MMX/233MMX should be ok for the OCS/ECS as mentioned. A Pentium II would be more comfortable, I guess.

I am checking out some emulators on MSDOS. Actually I prefer Fellow over UAE because it seems that Fellow is more compatible and faster.
I am using a AMD K6/2-450 with PCI matrox mystique 4MB. I have setup 68k 512KB chip 512KB slow, 640x480 16Bit Hicolor abd 50hz with hardware VGA line-doubling so I get fullscreen image at 640x480 which is very nice! Game/Demos that have large scrolling are not sutterfree because this needs much more CPU power and a monitor which supports 50hz output. But games like IK+ runs just fine. I am using fellow36 within win95 perhaps under plain dos it's even better, but I did not have tested this.