English Amiga Board - View Single Post - x86 Bridgeboard PC Speaker/SoundBlaster support?

superfrog · 29 July 2018, 01:41

I know this thread has been sitting dormant for a while now, but I was just wondering if there is still any intention to overhaul the Bridgeboard portion of WinUAE with something more hardware accurate than DOSBox and that would allow for emulation of a broader range of peripherals, in particular sound cards. It looks like PCem as of v14 has matured a fair bit and is quite stable and usable at this point. 86Box seems to have branched off in the direction of emulating higher-end x86 PC hardware like 486, Pentuim, and Pentim Pro, while PCem seems more focused on emulating older IBM PC 8088/286/386 era systems. So it's looking like PCem is still the strongest candidate for a PC emulation code base that could serve as the backbone for an overhauled x86 Bridgeboard implementation within WinUAE. I was just curious if this is still on the radar for the foreseeable future. Thanks for all your amazing work on recent overall WinUAE updates Toni!

29 July 2018, 01:41	#12
superfrog Registered User Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: San Francisco, USA Posts: 169	I know this thread has been sitting dormant for a while now, but I was just wondering if there is still any intention to overhaul the Bridgeboard portion of WinUAE with something more hardware accurate than DOSBox and that would allow for emulation of a broader range of peripherals, in particular sound cards. It looks like PCem as of v14 has matured a fair bit and is quite stable and usable at this point. 86Box seems to have branched off in the direction of emulating higher-end x86 PC hardware like 486, Pentuim, and Pentim Pro, while PCem seems more focused on emulating older IBM PC 8088/286/386 era systems. So it's looking like PCem is still the strongest candidate for a PC emulation code base that could serve as the backbone for an overhauled x86 Bridgeboard implementation within WinUAE. I was just curious if this is still on the radar for the foreseeable future. Thanks for all your amazing work on recent overall WinUAE updates Toni!