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FS-UAE is an Amiga emulator based on the excellent emulation code from WinUAE currently developed and maintained by Toni Wilen, which again builds on the work by the earlier authors of the original UAE and WinUAE. In a surprising announcement on Friday, February 21st, Cloanto - famous for its long running range of Amiga emulators - and the Mega65 Project announced that the two parties have come to an agreement regarding licensing official Commodore 65 ROM code for the upcoming Mega 65 8-bit computer, that fully clones the Commodore 65 using FPGA-hardware.
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My apologies! I do have an older G4 Mac as well, but it's less than ideal for modern software, including emulators.
Most users and developers have moved on since the shift to Intel processors.In any case, the macintosh garden may help you to find the latest system software for your Mac Mini.The list is unsorted, so be sure to scroll through.You may also find some games that can take full advantage of the PowerPC.More links:I would consider the raspberry pi to be 'state of the art' for low-powered, humble emulation right now. It fits well for the bedroom TV or custom arcade. Sorry it's not the answer you wanted, but we can't expect old hardware to learn new tricks.
Raspberry Pi 4 (based on 3's current performance) might at some point finally start overtaking something like a PS3/360 in terms of single-core performance, so we are not really far off.And for the record, PS3/360's single-core performance is still terrible compared to a 2006/2007 Core Duo laptop CPU, so there is still a long way to go all things considered. The kind of SoCs being used in Android/iOS phones are much, much further ahead of actually starting to rival x86 desktop equivalents, although even there there is a long way to go.Regarding the G4 Macs, I own one PowerMac which is a 333MHz G4, the other ones are all laptops, one Powerbook G4 Platinum, the other one is an iBook G4. For some reason, the iBook G4s are much, much slower compared to the Powerbook G4s. You wouldn't think there is such a big gulf in performance between the two but there is.
I think my G4 Powerbook performed a bit worse than the PS3 but only just. I think on one of my iBooks/Powerbooks, OpenGL 2.1 is 'barely' just there and I think even that being said, you have to catch some of the more commonplace features like FBOa with esoteric and no longer used extensions that aren't really necessary anymore with modernday OSX, so I kinda doubt any N64 emulator right now would run out of the box on it.That and there is the lack of a PowerPC dynarec in Mupen64plus as is anyway. I guess I could backport the PowerPC dynarec that was in Mupen64 at some point to mupen64plus libretro, but that would definitely be a lot of effort.
I was an Amiga fanatic. Spent every penny I had on my first Amiga (and then again on my second Amiga), and loved everything about it. But, here's the thing: Linux, which I discovered not even a year after giving up on the Amiga (I bought a Windows 95 PC in 1995, and mostly switched to Linux as my primary OS the same year), is (nearly) everything I ever loved about Amiga.only moreso.It has a fantastic user community, even better than the Amiga, that focuses on great technology over marketing. It has a great developer community, with even more available code to study (and in fact, a lot of the stuff I liked most on the Amiga was derived from UNIX utilities). And, it has a hacker mentality above all else.doing novel things with Linux is expected, respected, and supported (just as it was on the Amiga and the C64 before it).The only thing I've never quite gotten from Linux was the way the Amiga always treated the arts as a valuable part of the computing equation.
Sound and graphics Just Worked. Linux has had an awful, effectively unusable, sound subsystem for its entire history.and still does, to this day.
I recorded more music with my Amigas in maybe four or five years than I have in nearly 20 years of Linux use (I still reboot into Windows to record music).Anyway, my point is that I loved my Amigas. But, it's not something I want to use again.
I'm impressed that a small team is delivering a functional Amiga OS clone, but it's not an OS that I would want to use daily or develop for. The fact that it's not Open Source is just one more reason why I wouldn't have any interest in it. Rehabilitation of old computers is a pet topic of mine - I still have pretty much every computer I've ever owned, from the Oric-1 machine that got me going, to the Atari Portfolio with onboard C compiler that I used for many great things in the 90's, to the BeBox that I boot up every year, my old O2 that is still sitting there, in all its 200mhz glory, just because. But one thing that has always kind of bugged me is that I missed out on the Amiga revolution, having gone from developing at first for my home 8-bit machines, directly to Unix and machines like the MIPS Risc/os Pizzabox.
Which then led to SGI, and so on. So I feel like I missed a serious aspect of the computer revolution by not ever really having much Amiga time. All my mates ever did with theirs was play games, and I was much more interested in coding the thing than anything else.So every few years I get the urge to have another look and try to figure out what all the fuss is about. It seems like MorphOS is a good way to do that - but I have to say that I'm a little disappointed that its crippleware, although I understand that with practically no market for their work, the MorphOS developers have to make a buck somehow.Anyway, one thing that has really helped me get a bit of that lost spirit of Amiga computing has been the Open Pandora console: which is, essentially, an emulation paradise.
This allows me to run the UAE emulator and others, as well as a veritable cornucopia of emulators for other systems. Plus, its extremely portable, to boot.I even once ported BCPL to the Pandora, just so I could get a working EDSAC emulator, grin.For anyone else interested in archaic computing platforms, the underground movement behind the Pandora can be a very comforting community to join.
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