Amiga or not to Amiga - that is the question

[Toxitalk]

Hi,
Currently I have a laptop (1.4 ghz single mobile processor, embedded graphics and 1gb of ram), On it I have xp and Linux (dual boot).

Under xp its quick enough for anything other then running games like civ iv (due to the silly gfx card it needs).

I used to be a A500 owner (back when a 1/2 meg upgrade was over £100). And since then played with UAE for games like defender of the crown etc...

In the last couple of weeks I played the 1.4 version of winuae and was impressed how well it works now.

On to my question.

I am thinking of using os3.9 (or maybe os4) as a os. I would like to do as much day to day computing in it, but also play classic games etc...

Am I going to get a decent performance going down the winuae route on my current lappy, or do I need to uprate it, or will the performance suck on anything other then OS3.9 compatible hardware.

Many thanks

[InTheSand]

Hi,

IMHO, using an Amiga these days as a sole machine would take a real level of dedication... There's no decent web browser for a start, and most (but not all) productivity-style software hasn't been updated for ten years - an eternity in computing terms...

I'd say stick with WinUAE, or if the reason you're doing this is because of Windows, check out one of the Linux distributions such as Ubuntu (typing in XUbuntu / Firefox right now) as you'll get a lot of functionality and decent up to date software for free - and you'll still be able to run UAE!

 - Ali

[Toxitalk]

Its more a question of, how does os3.9 run in an emulated form?

Apart from playing stuff like defender of the crown, I have noticed 'Knights and Merchants' and other modern windows games ported to Amiga.

I need to keep a windows machine for some of the web work I do (if only to test the code).

I am finding I am running out of space on my current machine, so its a case of, another low spec laptop(one for business and one for pleasure), high spec laptop, desktop or amiga hardware.

I would be happy to go low spec lappy route,if I could be happy it would emulate os3.9 quickly enough for me.

Any thoughts welcome.

InTheSand wrote:
Hi,

IMHO, using an Amiga these days as a sole machine would take a real level of dedication... There's no decent web browser for a start, and most (but not all) productivity-style software hasn't been updated for ten years - an eternity in computing terms...

I'd say stick with WinUAE, or if the reason you're doing this is because of Windows, check out one of the Linux distributions such as Ubuntu (typing in XUbuntu / Firefox right now) as you'll get a lot of functionality and decent up to date software for free - and you'll still be able to run UAE!

 - Ali

[swift240]

I use a laptop a Dell 1.5 gig and I run Amikit 1.4.0 and that works very well indeed.

You can of course on boot up of Amikit press the left shift key and you will get Amikit as a normal enough Amiga but without the Dopus startup.

I use Amikit on my Athlon also with pretty good results.

Give it a go.

If you don`t feel that Amikit is good for you then try WinUAE but you will need WinUAE any way.

Mike.

[Toxitalk]

Looks interesting.

Will try it when I get a mo..

thanks

For the mo, I have decided to stick with my lappy, last night bought the online version of amiga forever and also installed amikit.

All looks god at the mo.

I am going to have to look at the configs though, because I ran a couple of demos fine, but playing operation wolf, the frame rate just died.