18 May 2007, 19:23 | #1 |
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Can I make WinUAE faster? (loading time and such)
Is there anyway to get a faster startup and loading time on WinUAE?
If anyone has played like SNES roms youre probably familiar with the turbo button where you can speed up the game youre playing. I mean, on an emulator, does it really have to take as long time to load up a game as it did on an actual Amiga? / EssKung (=AceKing) ;D |
18 May 2007, 19:27 | #2 |
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Well, there's the floppy disk speed slider which can help in a lot of games! Doesn't work with all disks though.
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18 May 2007, 19:29 | #3 |
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I wouldn't recommend using the floppy speed slider, you're much better off using warp mode (press end+break on the keyboard).
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18 May 2007, 19:51 | #4 |
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The essential difference between SNES and Amiga is the fact that the SNES was cartridge based and obviously the miggy was/is floppy based(with regards to booting up the Amiga had to load the OS from either floppy or hard drive{much like current Windows} and as such it takes longer than the SNES. Belgarth is absolutely correct in using the Warp mode...I've found it more reliable than using the slider.
If you mean by speeding up the Amiga above and over 100% emulation speed, I haven't noticed a switch or button that can do that and would it be required?? |
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Sweet.... I'll check that
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21 May 2007, 17:03 | #7 |
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Blimey, I never noticed the Warp Mode! Cool!
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21 May 2007, 20:17 | #8 |
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i keep forgotting it me too... it's a great feature
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22 May 2007, 00:03 | #9 |
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And for practially instant loading times, use WHDLoad versions of the games instead of lousy floppies!
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22 May 2007, 01:01 | #11 |
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On winuae i copied over my workbech and work partitions from my a1200 32mb o60. This took around a minute or 2 to fully load from the HD on my a1200 with my iconx progs and magicwb add ons. On winuae with an 040 8mb chip 63mb fast and cpu set to fastest and 8mb JIT it loads up in literally seconds! around 10 so that is a LOT faster loadin wise. Some games work in TURBO floppy mode, others prefer to be at 100% floppy speed.
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27 May 2007, 03:41 | #13 |
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yes .. yes, some of us do love our registered WHDLoad as well.
NO swapping of the all mighty floppy.. |
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I like WHDLoad
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