[uae] Re: Will there be a upcoming E-UAE release?
- From: "Roman S." <romanujan@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:28:01 +0100
> what do you need that UAE or E-UAE don't already have?
You want to read my wishlist? OK, but remember - this was YOUR idea :)
For playing games (and playing with apps also):
- floppy sound emulation (WinUAE has this - great feature for those
remembering real Amiga 500 from their childhood)
- display scaling to any given resolution, with 4:3 setting, as in WinUAE
- KDE 4 (in the future: KDE 5, KDE 6, ...) GUI, with nice KDE integration,
as easy to use as the GUI of WinUAE
- new scalling mode: first apply hq2x/hq3x/hq4x (possibly depending of the
host screen resolution to guest screen resolution ration) and then bilinear
scalling to the host screen resolution
- database of ADF/ADZ/IPF files - with the ability to quickly 'insert' given
image to the emulated Amiga, without specifying the full file path - look at
Amarok and think about something similar for ADFs, not for MP3s :)
- Amiga floppy (inserted to standard PC drive) support - impossible (but
maybe it is not much more impossible than creating ADFs from Amiga floppy
using two drives connected to one controller on the PC motherboard? well, at
least it is nice to dream... :P)
For playing with apps:
- AHI driver (WinUAE has this)
- dynamic size hardfile support (latest beta of WinUAE has this feature)
- uaenet.device, like in WinUAE (didn't have time yet to try this, however)
- hardware Warp3D support (possible for WinUAE - however, I am not sure if
it still works, so far I was unable to set up this feature correctly,
possibly because of some guest OS patches installed - I am going to try
again when I have more time)
- MMU support (not necessary real MMU, some kind of a 'driver' for the MuLib
would be sufficient for me; unlikely to happen)
- WarpOS support, preferably with JIT PPC emulation (unlikely to happen)
- AmigaOS 4.0 support, preferably with JIT PPC emulation (unlikely to
happen)
- MorphOS support, preferably with JIT PPC emulation (unlikely to happen)
- symlinks creation support on emulated filesystem (guest filesystem
passthrough) - would be nice for GeekGadgets (however, I am not 100% sure
whether (E)UAE has this feature or not)
- screen dragging on emulated GFX card (I am not sure if it is possible at
all, but I miss this chipset feature)
- genlock emulation
- USB guest os driver set, with the ability to limit availability of USB
devices to guest OS (some script maybe?)
- AROS as a guest OS, possibly some emulation integration (but this is more
depending on the AROS team)
- mpega.library, JPG/PNG/SVG datatypes, 7Z/ZIP/RAR/CAB/etc. archive support
in XAD/XPK/XFD, etc. - but implemented as an i386/AMD64/other_host_CPU code
on the emulator side and accessible via 'stub' libraries on the guest OS
side
In the future, I would be happy to see:
- Natami SuperAGA support
- AMD64 compatible JIT (fully 64-bit emulator)
This is for those seeking inspiration :P
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