Subj : AmigaOS 3.2 - AROS - Emulation - BBS
To   : Oli
From : vorlon
Date : Wed Feb 22 2023 10:23:08

Hi Oli,

 > v> Do you want to emulate a A500 or soemthing with a bit more grunt?
 > v> Do you just want to play games or do more?
 > 
 > I'm mostly interested in BBS and Fidonet stuff.

Any config of an expanded A2000/1200/4000/3000 will do what you want.
Back in the day I had Amiga users that just had basic A500 setups that
used to call my BBS.

 > v> Aros won't run Amiga games in it's native format, and you'll need
 > v> one of the emulators to do that.
 > 
 > Would AROS be sufficient for a mail tosser or a BBS? I guess I have to
 > try.
 > 
 > Do you have any experience with AROS?

Aros is a implemtation of the API, and is i386 based. So no native Amiga
m68k things will work, there needs to be a Aros version.

The last time I looked at Aros, it was a stinking pile of dog poo.... %-)
It was unstable, locking up, freezing.

Never looked at it since (Except for some minor testing for my AmiDeb
system with a version for m68k.)

 >  v> amiga_model = A3000
 >  v> chip_memory = 2048
 >  v> fast_memory = 8192
 > 
 > Does it matter if I use Fast RAM, Motherboard RAM or Zorro III Fast
 > Memory? (besides the upper limits?)

Ok.. some examples.

Chip ram = Memory that the custom chip's and cpu share access to. (Think
of it as video memory, even though a machine with only chip ram
will still work and function. The Amiga 1200 for example, only came with a
base config of 2mb of chip ram.)

Fast ram = Memory that the CPU has sole access to.
Having fast ram will speed the machine up. My first Amiga was a A2000,
with 1mb of Chip Ram, and 1mb of Fast ram.

The more fastram a machine has, the more programs that run at the same
time.

 > On the F12 menu there is also no shutdown. Should I just close the
 > emulator window?

That is how you quit/shutdown the emulator. $-)



\/orlon
aka
Stephen


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