[torontocbm] Re: VICE throttled?

  • From: Gil Winkler <kimmyland@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 17:55:39 -0400

Warp mode....you know what that does right?
Runs the emulation as though the processor is running much faster clock
cycles....right?



On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Ian Colquhoun <icolquhoun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Gil Winkler <kimmyland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > No, actually I am talking about running it at 250fps, which is done
> through
> > the multiplication factor
> > option (200%, 100%, 50%, 20%, 10%, No limit, Custom) and also known as
> 'warp
> > mode'....which
> > brings it up to about 26MHz and almost to 55 when I deselect various
> > options.
> >
> > Right....that is what I was talking about :)   I am using the PET 4032
> > emulator and TRYING to run it faster than
> > 5500% (Considering that I have 4.2Ghz at my disposal, this would mean,
> after
> > accounting for the loss of speed
> > through compilation and emulation that there should be somewhere about a
> > 100x-fold loss of speed.)   I am wondering
> > if the software deliberately throttles VICE to top-out at somewhere
> around
> > 60MHz or is the emulator so badly written that
> > 4,200Mhz will only translate to 30MHz on VICE?
>
> I fail to understand your relation of VICE fps and Mhz of anything. I
> have a feeling you don't entirely understand what you're asking and
> neither do I.
>
> --
>  Ian Colquhoun <icolquhoun@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>

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