Thinking of buying a Mac Mini for Morph OS - Questions

[XDelusion]

I got an eMac and have loved the experience thus far, all with only 512Mb or RAM, though I want to max that out so I can store more on my RAM drive, which I use A LOT!

My only resentment thus far is that my high quality videos and Youtube ALL play in slow motion, also I've noticed that some videos loose sync, where they do not on my, 1.6Ghz Netobook, 2.8 Ghz AMD system, or even my classic XBOX using XBOX Media Center.

As for Joystick support, eUAE is one of those few programs that seem to support it directly, and yes as stated above, you can remap your joystick buttons to Keyboard buttons via Poseidon, but thus far I'm having trouble finding documentation that tells me exactly how to go about this.

@Piru Where is this eye candy you speak about that I can't use on my eMac?

Also since the eMac uses shared RAM for it's video RAM, why can't the RAM just be allocated to the Fast RAM under MorphOS instead, leaving more GFX RAM free?

[XDelusion]

Youtube issues resolved.

[XDelusion]

For the note, and this has been posted elsewhere in the forums, but if you hate your eMac screen, or it starts to go out, the procedure to re-case an eMac and hook it up to a VGA monitor does not look that very hard.

BTW, what's the down side to a CRT monitor again?

[XDelusion]

Many games (including the SDL ones) and emulators (snes9x, mame, mess, genesisplus, amigenerator, ...)  support joystick directly too. Which ones didn't?

FPSE
SNES9x works, but the button assignments are in the wrong places
MAME does not interact with the Joypad for me, nor did I see how to activate it in the docs
PrBOOM (DOOM Clone) Needed because their are issues with the mouse moving the character even when you tell it not to.
Virtual Boy Advanced

I forget what else, but there are more I had issues with, some of the ones you mentioned I've not tested yet.

[XDelusion]

The Mame I'm using  is command line only. The GUI based one would not even load for me...

FPSE - Let's pray we get an update then because I'm having ZERO luck with Poseidon even now that I have docs and tutorials and all.  And I do consider my self a mark above daft so I dunno what's up. :/

Snes9x - It's like A is where X should be and vice versa. I.E. In a correct set up the button to make Mario run is right next to the button to make him jump, this way you can hold run and press jump without issues. Where as the emulator place the buttons across from one another so holding run while pressing jump becomes a chore.
Naturally my trigger buttons are not assigned as the trigger buttons, etc. Seeing as how the Original incarnation of this emulator allows you to set your key config, I don't see why this port left that feature out.

Atari800 - Add that to the list. In full screen it appears "like so many non-windows OS games) in  a very small window in the upper left hand corner of the screen, and of course has no joystick input that I can find.

Virtual Boy Advanced - Well unless there is an alt version out there, this command line version does not seem to even notice I have a joystick plugged in at all, unless there is a command to enable it that I'm not seeing.

[XDelusion]

What brand of Joypad do you use?

[XDelusion]

I think that's what I have...

Hmmm...

I'm planning on getting a different controller soon, then I'll be able to compare them.

I wonder if the XBOX 360 USB controller would work in MorphOS, of if special drivers would need to be written.

[XDelusion]

@Fab: Thank you sir, I'll take this information hope and have a try.