AGA games...

[Will-i-am]

My wife is a gaming fool, she loves fast shoot=em-ups like Datastorm Deluxe Galaga and platform games as well as Zool, Robocod etc. None of the disks I have will run on my A4000 anymore. They start to a screen of lines and no sound. I suppose the disks are just shot or something. I would like to install UAE on this PC (piece of crap) but I wonder if a 800mhz machine with no graphics/sound card can run it? I did get Llamatron to work but without a joystick port the old keyboard controls just piss her off. Some suggestions for how to get her back in the old Datastorm pilot seat?

[Will-i-am]

Leifern wrote:
I would think it will do the trick.. But without a soundcard? You've got NO SOUND? Hmm.. Wouldn't make things very enjoyable!? :-P

Well.. A slightly better PC won't cost much, and might be a good investement anyway? I was running UAE on my P4-1.5 ghz with SBlive and GeForce2 and it worked like a charm. But it hardly runs at all on my P200. I won't cost you anything to download WinUae and try it. :crazy:

Yeah,

....NO, no! I don't have a dedicated sound card. It's a Sony Vaio and has sound... kinda sucky sound from tiny speakers, but it does have sound. It's just 3 years old or so and runs mostly okay but I never tried an emulator on it. Personally I much prefer playing with classic Amiga hardware, except for the times when I want to take a sledge hammer to the box and beat it into a thousand pieces. (Not unlike my '98 Volvo. It also runs mostly good but occasionally decides to start leaking precious fluids, always right around the time I need to drive to some far away location.) I've tried to convince the Alpha Geek here we should upgrade the Sony but as long as it runs her PC games she's satisfied. Except she misses her Amiga games and I thought maybe if I could run an emulator and it was just a tad slow that would motivate her to get a faster machine. By the way, I'm retired so the money would have to come from my sweety-pie's paycheck. Hence the delay. :-D