Help with VICE for Amiga

[Castelle]

Thanks for all the info - I've now bought myself a C64 off of eBay for 20 quid!

I went for the classic C64 with the MOS 6581 SID chip as in my view all the best tunes were written for it and not the later MOS 8580 SID chip...

Have a look at these little beauties I won last night on eBay: 200231436289

This was after some furious bidding!

Just have to get a 1541 now, version 2, I think as its smaller!!

What are your views Demon Cleaner on this?
I'm asking cos you seem to be the C64 authority around here

Oh yeah, a XE1541 cable for transfers !!

[Buleste]

I got VICE running under WinUAE and managed to get 14fps on defender of the crown

[Demon Cleaner]

Nice buy, I also have the Final Cartridge III which is a fast loader and indispensable if you're using your C64 a lot. It also has a freezer.

In the HardSID topic, Harrison already mentioned the Catweasel MkIV which I also have and it serves for a lot of things. You don't need a HardSID, you don't need an XE1541 cable, you can do everything with the Catweasel controller. If you're using the XE1541 cable, you have to use Starcommander, and this one only runs under DOS.

As for the floppy drive, I prefer the good old 1541, as the 2nd version is a bit smaller, that's no question, but it has an external power supply.

[Harrison]

Regarding C64 emulation. Why try to emulate a C64 on an emulated Amiga? Much better to use a native PC C64 emulator such as Vice. Runs full speed and much better.

Emulators on the Amiga were never on the whole that good compared to PC emulators. The ZX Spectrum was probably the most successfully emulated system on the Amiga, followed by the c64, although that was never full speed in my experience.

[Buleste]

I tried Vice on WinUAE just to see what it would do. A PC emulating a Amiga emulating a C64 was just an interesting if pointless experiment.
You're right about Spectrum emulation on AMiga being superb (although FUSE is bad.). I keep meaning to test other emulators on the Amiga. I'll get round to it eventually.

[Harrison]

BBC Micro and PC XT emulation were both pretty good. Atari ST emulation sort of worked, but I never managed to get any games to work, just GEM.

[Demon Cleaner]

A PC emulating a Amiga emulating a C64 was just an interesting if pointless experiment.

That was my intention, to test if it would work, but unfortunately it's very slow.

[Buleste]

Faster than a normal Amiga though.