Would the A1200 be able to emulate a PC Engine?

[meynaf]

Originally Posted by Bruce Abbott

There is no challenge in emulating a retro system on a PC - you just keep throwing code at it until you have the level of accuracy you want. In short, the job is boring.

There is some challenge in the sense you have to fight against the peculiarities of the target platform. But this makes it even more boring. IOW, PCs are powerful, but they still suck.

[Bruce Abbott]

Turns out there is a PC-Engine emulator for the A1200. It only works on some games, and is pretty slow - but it does work.

On my A1200 with 50MHz 030 Xevious ran at 1/3-1/2 full speed (20-30 fps) - slow, but perfectly playable! It looked good and ran smoothly too, with no noticeable glitches.

[PortuguesePilot]

Originally Posted by AmiPCE Readme

- VIDEO: 70% emulated:
--- Tiles/Bitmaps: 100% emulated using the 256 colors AGA mode. (BUT, 16 colors are used for Sprites emulation)
--- Sprites: Emulated using AGA Sprites, so I can only use ONE palette (16 colors) of the 16 palettes (256 colors) possible in a PC-Engine. So, Sprites colors will be changed randomly, and only the most palette will be used for all Sprites

- PSG/Sound: 75% emulated, I only emulate 4 channels of the 6 channels possible in a PC-Engine. Currently the sound is not very similar to a real PC-Engine.

There. Those are the graphics and sound compromises (if the emulator was to use AGA) that I was talking about on my previous post...