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The -flop1 switch tells MAME and LB what drive to load the sofware. I also added phasor sound card (mostly for Ultima) but that is optional since Mockingbird is "built in" with no need for switches. Add the gameio switch as noted below if want joystick compatibility directly in the emulator. It isn't you cannot use Mame for multi disks, but the interface to do so is a pain, particularly if going for a "use a controller for everything" model.įor MAME: See my settings below. Also brings the support of normal MAME without a bunch of other setup needed (i.e. MAME has advantage in that likely most people have it already and for single disk games it works fine. It is also speedier to launch, unless you map the MAME speed throttle. Swapping and loading disks (side A or side B, Disk 2, Player disks) in AppleWin is just much easier to do. Newer models typically have better performance, but the M1 seems to have surprisingly fast speed even when emulating Intel processors through Rosetta 2.AppleWin is great, particularly if using multiple disks games or trying to do more complicated "computer" type things in an Apple.
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When Intel app performance is compared between a previous generation Intel Mac and a current-generation M1 Mac using emulation, the newer Mac may still be faster. Of course, this will depend on how the app was coded and how much is handled with macOS calls.

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This isn’t as efficient as if the app was written for the M1 in the beginning and the emulator is still needed at runtime for code that couldn’t be handled in advance, but Rosetta 2 does a remarkable job of optimizing code that was developed for a whole different CPU architecture and translating on the fly when necessary.īased on various reports and benchmarks, apps running through Rosetta 2 achieve about 80 percent of the performance of a Native M1 app. If installed via a third-party installer such as Microsoft’s installer for the Intel version of Office, the translation happens upon the first run of the app. When first installing the app via the Mac App Store or other Apple recognized installer, much of the Intel code is translated into M1 instructions before it is even run. Going beyond standard emulation, Rosetta 2 does some of the work in advance. That’s part of the reason why Apple can claim that some Intel apps that require heavy use of graphics processing actually perform better under Rosetta 2 on the M1 than they did on an Intel Mac. This means most user input, graphics operations, file access, and other macOS standard features are handled by native code. Depending on how the app is coded, the emulator may continue on to the next instruction or wait for a response from the OS.
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In cases where a common operating system (OS) is used on both the physical hardware and the virtual system being emulated, such as with older and newer Mac computers, any calls to the operating system can execute at full speed, without the emulator being involved. The most basic type of emulation is to load apps designed for other computer systems or games into memory and interpret each instruction in a way that makes sense to the processor in use. Rosetta 2 is the name of Apple’s emulator/translator software.

Related: M1 MacBook Air Benchmarks Suggest Apple Mac Silicon Is The Chip To Beat

Some had concerns about whether the new chip would work with existing apps and how much performance would suffer if Intel apps were running through an emulator. At the same time, efficiency has increased to offer up to 20 hours of battery life. The newest 13-inch MacBook Pro, for example, beats the 1.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 version that came out a few months earlier, boasting nearly three times the CPU speed and up to five times the graphics performance. The M1 chip is still making headlines for offering blazing speed while sipping power gently.
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Emulators typically slow down performance significantly, but something about Apple’s hardware and software seems to make the impact negligible.
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When Apple announced that its newest 13-inch MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini would be powered by its M1 chip, it told existing Mac owners that the Intel apps would still run just fine and in some cases even faster.
