Winuae - Dedicated amiga emulation pc - Optimizations?

[haywirepc]

I have a dedicated amiga emulation pc consisting of an amd 1400mhz pc with a good gpu equipped graphics card and 512 megs ram.
 
Can someone post some tips on optimizing winuae for best performance for this setup? The system boots to windows but I removed windows shell, logon screens and assorted windows nonsense with a help file provided by a user here...
 
The system appears to boot straight to amiga os 3.x provided by amiga forever. You would not even really know windows was underneath unless you ctrl-alt-deleted and got to whats behind amiga os 3.x
 
Everything seems to be working nice, but I'd like to tune the config file for max performance... I'm sure I'm not the only one using a pc like this, so please let me know if your doing the same what you do to maximize available resources to the amiga os... And minimize windows part in the setup except as a background host.
 
All is working well but screen redraws a bit slow under heavy multitasking and I'd like to do all I can to maximize the system for amiga os use.
 
Any help or thoughts on this type of setup would be greatly appreciated...
 
Steven

[ElPolloDiabl]

Which Windows version are you using?

[haywirepc]

I am using windows xp pro the newest version...
 
Steven

[motorollin]

Have you considered using XAmiga or KXLight?

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moto

[haywirepc]

I would have preferred to use the kxlight install, but it defaults to 800x600 max screen resolution. Someone told me thats an easy fix, just edit the xorg.conf file but I didn't have a linux boot disk around to do that...
 
This setup with windows xp works great, especially once the logon/logoff and splash screens are removed, you wouldn't even know its on a windows pc. Also, I like having the option of using FIREFOX or internet explorer on the windows side if I want to, and being able to load adf files with winuae is nice since I can't read or write real amiga floppies (yet)
 
I may get a catweasel for this setup...
 
The other option you showed I haven't seen before, looks cool I will check it out...
 
Steven

[motorollin]

You could also try TinyXP or XPLite if it's a minimal XP distro you're after. Alternatively, you could download a Knoppix or DSL ISO in order to edit the required file in KXLight.

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moto

[Piru]

Have you considered using XAmiga or KXLight?

In this instance I wouldn't recommend either. WinUAE is just lightyears ahead of the linux UAE.

[Gulliver]

If using Windows get MicroXP, it is a 99MB WinXP distro that it is very lean and has very few Windows services running by default.

I also set my WinUAE to use the vsync option (in the display tab).

Good luck!


PS: I have to agree with @Piru, although i enjoy linux very much, the Windows port is by far the best one.

[motorollin]

MicroXP looks very interesting. I've got a Parallels installation of Windows just for connecting to the Sundriver in my Wii. This would save a lot of disk space

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moto

[haywirepc]

I agree winuae beats the linux version by far in my opinion, which is another reason I choise winxp/winuae. I have uae on my linux box its fine for some things, but for a dedicated amiga machine I think winuae and xp is the best option.
 
I have stripped my vanilla xp install of most things that are not core components, disk space is not really an issue, but I wanted to be sure xp wasn't taking any resources it did not really need.
 
I have a pretty vanilla os3.9 setup now, I have alot of work to do to the system installing stuff, that should keep me pretty busy for awhile.
I'd really like to add a catweasel,I have alot of amiga discs that are sitting in boxes...
 
Steven

[hbarcellos]

Your post just inspired me to turn an old 1ghz Latitute c510 into a dedicated Winuae machine.
Downloading MicroXP now...
But, how did you manage to completely hide windows during startup?

[Hell Labs]

There's plenty of hacking tools that will let you remove or chance the boot logo, and I think there's some out there that can do the same for the loading/logon screens.

Time for my own questions. If I was to fit a catweasel would that let winuae read amiga disks directly, or do I have bad info? And does winuae support playing audio cd's, because I never got that to work.