Would this be any good for WinUAE?

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Hum,
well i used to run winUae on a P2 400 with a geforce mx440 and it was usable.
So anything above that would be even better...

My suggestion is to opt for a chipset that will support a 400 FSB, just for the improved read speeds (if you upgrade the mem later on)...an old type ASROCK sx8 mobo will be less than 30 uk pounds.

A second hand geforce fx5200 graphics card will cost you £20 (i paid a £100 about a year ago...), a geforce mx440 will be about a tenner....

Save yourself some money and get the cheapest memory (256mb) and upgrade/trade-in to the faster stuff later on...

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@ShadesOfGrey

hum,

>>You can do this manually...

yeah, good suggestion, though i would personally have a duel booting machine - a tweaked win98SE and a winUAE OS...

(just, shove in the Windows cdrom and instead of overwriting the current os create a new `Windows2` folder to install the alternative boot onto...)

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@ShadesOfGrey

>>is your impression that you would need two separate installs of Windows..

Hum,
No.
Your pickable shell idea sounds, er, sound...

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But, on a slightly different note, given that HD space is fairly cheep, there is no reason not to have a fallback OS installed...infact, on my classic Amiga i have a 10mb partition set aside for a unmodified workbench, when i do something stupid with the main DHO:

I’m running xp pro (sp2), and even with it’s restore recovery features i still have a second OS to fall back on...i have learned, after losing too much data and time in the past, to take precautions... :-)
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