The Amiga XP x86 guide

[haywirepc]

This is a great guide, and I will be using this for an emulated pc project.
 
See my other thread, I all but gave up on the kxlight installation of amiga forever, which is a shame because it seemed to work nicely. I just didn't want to be stuck at 800x600.
 
I tried a faster pc, an amd1400mhz with 512megs ram, with windows xp installed as the host. Video works up to 1600x1200, but the video updating seems slow. This may be because I'm using the built in video
card. I will be purchasing an accellerated pci video card and hopefully,
the speed of the system will be much improved.
 
How did you get the commodore symbol and the amiga logo on that case?

Steven

[haywirepc]

You don't happen to have a .jpg file or something for the stencil?
I was hoping you made the template on a pc.

I guess I could make my own, but figured I'd ask. I really like that, and can put it on each side of the case, since its tower case. Can you tell more details about your system, like the video card your using?

How well does it play most software? Games?

I played with this amd1400 and the setup you described, though I didn't get rid of the windows shell just yet. The video seems to be very slow updating, like if you open the system folder, takes what seems like too long (compared to my main windows pc)
 
My main windows pc has a good accelerated video card with gpu and winuae/os3.9 runs just great on that.
 
I'm wondering, is that what I need for this amiga x86 machine so
it has faster video? Any opinions on this guys, would be greatly appreciated.
 
I also considered that an amd1400 may just not have enough horsepower.
 
I tried loading wbasteroids and its so slow, its unplayable really, that pretty much tells me most things I'd like to use would run like crap.
I'm really hoping its just the video card.
 
Any ideas how to improve the speed of this? I'm very excited by this dedicated emulation pc, and I'd even buy myself a catweasel pci if I could get the rest of it working.
 
Ahhh, dumping all the old amiga floppies I have to hard drive would be great! It would be even greater if I could use some of that stuff again.
 
I wanted to buy a pimped out a1200 tower system, but I just can't afford
paying that much, this would be great if I could get it going.
 
Thanks for your guide, I'm halfway there now, I really hope I can get this
working.

Steven

[haywirepc]

You are not using an accellerated graphics card with gpu? I hoped that was all I needed, but I suppose not.

Man, must be that this athon 1400 is a celleron equivelant or something...
I gotta try this install on a 2ghz or faster real intel cpu, and see what happens. Very frustrating!

Steven

[haywirepc]

Just a quick note to say that my AMD1400 is running great after installing an agp accellerated graphics card. Its only a 32meg card but it made a HUGE difference.
 
I guess having the GPU is what matters alot. WBasteroids and everything else I tried ran great. So in building your emulation machine, the lesson is that you should care just as much about an accellerated video card as you do about the cpu.
 
Before the new video card, the machine seemed to crawl when loading any games.
Now it flies, so what do you know, 1400mhz is plenty fast as an emulated amiga.
 
Steven