Re: [hatari-devel] WinUAE Falcon emulation and FPU

[Laurent Sallafranque <laurent.sallafranque@xxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

> Are there a lot of demos that *require* FPU?

I did a few tests with some FPU required demos.
It seemed to work quite well, except for one : Eskimau

This demo is a 68060 + accelerator board Falcon, but the code is pure 
68030+FPU.
To run it, just use the new cpu + 68030 + DSP + 14 Meg + 32 Mhz CPU.

The sound is horrible, but you can listen it a bit under the loud noise.

In this demo, 2 screens seem to show little problems : the tridi world 
and the tridi hand.
On some borders of the tridi objects, there are some lines that are 
bigger than it should be.

I'm pretty sure it's about rounding or bugs in the FPU emulation, but I 
don't know it enough to investigate.

Regards

Laurent

PS : it's one of the few 68060 demos that run with hatari (with sound 
problems)



Le 28/09/2012 22:12, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On perjantai 28 syyskuu 2012, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > schrieb Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > The reason seems to be that WinUAE core defaults
> > > FPU to "none".  If I select any other FPU option,
> > > the demo works fine.
> > >
> > > Does old UAE core 030 setting emulate FPU?
> > Yes, that's why the GUI says "68EC030+FPU" when you
> > select this CPU level.
> Why old UAE core emulates by default something which
> isn't standard on 030?
>
>
> > > As Falcon has 68030 which doesn't include FPU and
> > > Falcon didn't include a separate FPU, how this demo
> > > can work on real Falcon?
> > It doesn't work on a non-FPU Falcon. Just read the
> > read_me.1st file that is shipped with the demo.
> Thanks, I missed that.  I was in hurry to be somewhere
> else when I noticed the issue (I had first thought it
> was EmuTOS regression because I've naturally tested
> earlier EmuTOS versions only with old UAE core).
>
>
> IMHO it would be better to add something about that
> at least to the compatibility list.  These kinds of
> differences between our emulation cores can be a bit
> surprising...
>
>
>
>
> 	- Eero