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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Amiga Emulation => Topic started by: amiga4001 on January 31, 2011, 07:46:41 PM
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I want to run puae on my dell laptop with puppylinux on it.
Only problem is I can only find the source off puae no binaries..
As a beginner with linux I am falling into a deep black hole here.
I don't know how to compile or even how to set puppy up to be able to compile.
All I want with this machine is browsing and be able to play amiga games.
I tried UAE but this is too slow on this machine 800Mhz..
I there anybody who can make me a program out of the source?
I can pay a small fee with paypal...say 5 euro I you want.
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I run Ubuntu Netbook Edition (http://www.ubuntu.com/netbook) on an Acer A110 netbook (Intel Atom 1.6Ghz, 1.5Gb RAM 8GB SSD) and WinUAE under Wine and it manages fairly well (better than the native Linux UAE versions!). The effective speed of the Intel Atom is around an 800Mhz Intel Celeron-M (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-atom-cpu,1947-9.html).
Puppy Linux imho is too rough to be of any real use. A cut down Ubuntu distribution would be the best way to go if you don't use Ubuntu Netbook - maybe Xubuntu (http://www.xubuntu.org/)?
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xubuntu is not much better. Stick with the Unity based netbook version of Ubuntu.
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Try an e17 based distro.
http://www.elivecd.org/
http://opengeu.intilinux.com/
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e17 = too...much...BLING!!! :laughing:
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e17 = too...much...BLING!!! :laughing:
True, but it flies even on a 300MHz Pentium II with 128MB RAM! :)
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xubuntu is not much better. Stick with the Unity based netbook version of Ubuntu.
Unity = bletch.
Kubuntu netbook remix (10.04) is what I use on my Eeepc 701 (500Mhz celeron). It's no speed demon but the major factor slowing it down is that half of the OS is on an SD card.
But yeah, Puppy is nice enough for quick and dirty stuff, but the moment you step beyond that you're into a whole world of hurt.
As for E17 having too much bling... I ran Elive 2.0 for quite a while both on the netbook and the F5, it may be heart stoppingly pretty, but it's also brutally efficient when it comes to resource usage, especially on older machines. It actually managed to be in the same ballpark as BeOS R5.1, but was more responsive.
Be aware however, with Elive at least I found that there were issues due to the applications being several versions old. There are ways to get updated ones however which if you go down that route I'll be happy to talk you through it.
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Arch + DWM is how I roll. It flies on anything.
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Arch + DWM is how I roll. It flies on anything.
One approach would be to take xubuntu and uninstall all the apps you don't want.
An Aus mag did that and ended up with a distro UserOS which is quite functional and runs on 500 hz and 128 meg ram
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There is an E17 version of pclinuxos, fast, many themes, and synaptic
package management. Easy to install on usbstick, or other media/drives.
and E17 articles are featured in this months mag
http://www.pclinuxos.com/
Cheers
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E17 rulez!!!
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I tried wine and winuae but winuae crashes why??Maybe yo new version?
So would this E17 and uae give me enough boost to play A500 games?
Not easy too install as this laptop has no cddrive and it also doesn't boot on usb.
So I'll have too use an other laptop to install it to the harddrive.
I already tried some other linux distro's like slackware and some other but none off those booted on the livecd.
Guess the distro's for slow computers are not that compatible with the old hardware....
You can say what you want from puppy but it always boots on every hardware.
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there's DSL to try too, but a stripped down ubuntu would probably do fine. Just disable any stuff on startup that you dont want
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I use a puppy setup, but within the many variants of puppy, there are
some unsolvable hardware conflicts, that forum experts have agreed
are just the way mutt dies, and buying different hardware is the only way
to walk the dog. :)
Cheers