Portable Amiga anyone??

[coldfish]

I think this is a great project.

I have a GP2X running the latest version UAE4all and its actually very good, many games are almost 100% with the right settings @ 240-280Mhz, some fussy games are less smooth.  Amiga/16bit generation in a handheld is extra fun over emulation on a PC.

Replacing the gubbins in a dead PSP seems like a good idea, you wont have to think about moulding/design and can hijack Sony's industrial design whilst recycling.

I'll probably get a 2nd batch pandora, but more options for portable Amiga fun is good, I hope this project makes to to completion.

[coldfish]

How happy are you with the GP2X overall? I've been contemplating buying one. Mostly for the Amiga emulation, but a few other systems interest me as well. UAE on the PSP just doesn't seem to be smooth enough on a lot of the games, despite some tweeking of the settings.

I'm very happy with it, emulation of 8-16-32bit systems is very high quality. MAME, CPS2, PCengine, GB/GBA, SNES, Megadrive and C64. Amiga emulation is one of the sticking points though, the GP2X cant quite get full 100% emulation, but unless you need perfection it does a good job on ~80% of the titles Ive tried.  Some things dont work no matter how I tweak settings.

Pandora is already claiming 100% Amiga emulation and it has a keyboard and touchscreen (mouse emulation).

/partial hijack off.

[coldfish]

Yeah, that's what I was getting at, thanks for clarifying. Maybe I shouldnt have used percentages?

My point is, Amiga emulation on the GP2X is good enough (imo) to give the feel of a "handheld Amiga" and play (most) games at playable speed.

If emulating an Amiga in hardware works better, like this project suggests, I'm all for it.