Would this be any good for WinUAE?

[AmigaEd]

Howdy,
I'm thinking of buying a new PC to use with WinUAE. I have to do things on the cheap and can get a fair deal from a local guy on a system with the following...

Mother board: Soyo K7VM333
Processor: Sempron 2500+ 1.75 Ghz
Memory: 512MB DDR 333mhz

Has UniChrome GDX onboard video with 32 MB shared ram.
(board also has 4x agp slot - but can't afford a card right now... perhaps in the future - any recomendations welcome)

Have the option of several different size hard drives depending on how much I wish to spend.

So, my question is would this work well with WinUAE? Would it be worth spending the money?

I'm actually trying winUAE on my old AMD k6-2/380 with 512mb and xp pro. it works fairly well although I beleive that it's really sluggish with the games.

Just looking for thoughts here, not trying to open the can of worms  :-o

Thanks,
AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

Even replacing explorer with WinUAE as your shell.

Where can I find information about how to do this?

-AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

@ShadesOfGrey

Thanks for all of the great info and links. As soon as I started reading your post, how to shell out to WinUAE made sense to me. I'll have to play around with this some and see if shelling out to WinUAE will work for me. I can see a few drawbacks to doing this, but I can also see some advantages, not the least of which is that it may make the whole setup seem more like a real Amiga.

AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

Just wanted to follow up on this thread...

I did get the system as described at the start of this thread. So far it seems to work quite well running WinUAE with AmigaSYS 1.7, AF6 and soon I'll try AIAB.

Still get an occasional glitch in the sound but not too often. Mostly seems to occur only when running some complicated graphics at the same time as complex audio.

I'm much happier now!

Later,
AmigaEd

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