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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Amiga Emulation => Topic started by: Amiduffer on November 06, 2006, 05:31:46 PM

Title: What should I look for in PC laptops, when emulating?
Post by: Amiduffer on November 06, 2006, 05:31:46 PM

Hi all. I'm looking around for a used laptop, and had the idea of running one of the Amiga emulators.

What would be the ideal setup or at least the bare minimum in a used laptop that would give me decent performance on the Amiga side, as far as Win OS, Ram size, ghz/mhz, etc.

Thanks.

Title: Re: What should I look for in PC laptops, when emulating?
Post by: jj on November 06, 2006, 05:56:40 PM

When it comes to emaulating, especailly the miggy with all its custome chips etc, the more you can chuck at it the better the experience.

I run Winuae, on this laptop which is a lowly pentium III 500mhz with 328Mb of ram, and ATI rage mobility M1.  Its just about acceptable on A500 stuff, though sound get very choppy.

Title: Re: What should I look for in PC laptops, when emulating?
Post by: InTheSand on November 06, 2006, 06:10:21 PM

Hi,

My 2c worth: I'd say around an 800MHz+ CPU, and either Windows 2000 (with 256Mb RAM) or XP (with 512Mb RAM) should give a decent enough Amiga experience with WinUAE.

It's not essential, but can also help if the laptop has a discrete graphics card (even something ancient like a Geforce2Go or similar) with its own GPU and RAM, rather than a basic embedded effort.

And the usual stuff applies, like making sure the latest DirectX, audio drivers, video drivers, etc, are installed.

With some older laptops that use NVidia chipsets, LaptopVideo2Go (http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/) is a useful resource, allowing newer drivers to be installed on older chipsets...

 - Ali