Lowest Spec for WinUAE ??

Methanoid · 12 December 2007, 09:26

I'm considering the new Asus EEE PC and it runs a 600mhz ULV Celeron (supposedly a 900mhz but you have to overclock to get that). I'm wondering if WinUAE will run on that at all. It's been ages since I had that slow a CPU

Or is it time for WinFellow or frameskip 5 etc etc? Anyone got a slow PC around?

Zetr0 · 12 December 2007, 09:37

@meth

i must be doing something wrong...

I have an athlon 2400xp chip on my media box and the noise stutters coz its not fast enough...

s2325 · 12 December 2007, 10:04

You can "play" in slow motion even on 486 66MHz with Fellow (MS-DOS)

Zetr0 · 12 December 2007, 10:14

@s2325

i sense a disturbance in the farce..... the use of the term "play" surely you mean "slowest rolling demo" perhaps.....

musashi5150 · 12 December 2007, 10:53

My Athlon-900 used to emulate an A500 just perfectly. Sometimes used to struggle a little with AGA stuff, but it was still playable.

killergorilla · 12 December 2007, 10:56

I'm sure you could recompile it without all of the features the current WinUAE has.

The xbox port of WinUAE runs pretty much perfectly for everything except AGA and that's a 733mhz celerony thing with only 64mb of RAM!

musashi5150 · 12 December 2007, 11:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by killergorilla

The xbox port of WinUAE runs pretty much perfectly for everything except AGA and that's a 733mhz celerony thing with only 64mb of RAM!

That's very true KG, I'd forgotten about that

Toni Wilen · 12 December 2007, 11:25

Most A500 games work fine with ~1GHz or even slower PC if you configure it properly. Without frameskip. (and it has been posted multiple times here already. as usually.)

Anubis · 12 December 2007, 12:16

Why WinFellow is second option when you can download older versions of WinUAE as well?!

And why are you getting that slow processor anyway?? I have laptop with 1.5GHz Pentium M and WinUAE works without problem, and still it makes no noise and is great like media center. (I have 160GB hd installed on that laptop, and one 500GB removable HD)

Bloodwych · 12 December 2007, 13:40

I had WinUAE running on a Celeron 450 (on-die cache) / PC100 SDRAM and it ran A500 games fine. My brother just wanted an internet surfing machine so he got that crappy thing for a while.

Can't remember what version it was though - probably not a recent one! I think I tried the latest WinUAE at the time and it just about couldn't manage it without at least 1 frameskip set. In the end, I think I used the famous 0.8.8 (although it could have been newer) and it ran A500 games full speed.

Then I took pity on my brother and gave him a not so much but still crap Pentium III 800 / PC133 SDRAM box instead.

Surprisingly, that runs the latest WinUAE in A500 mode full speed, with about 65% CPU usage on average! This was while playing Turrican II with all its glorious sound filling the air!

Hope this helps.

Methanoid · 14 December 2007, 09:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Most A500 games work fine with ~1GHz or even slower PC if you configure it properly. Without frameskip. (and it has been posted multiple times here already. as usually.)

Asus EEE pc, 600-900mhz ULV Celeron and 800*480 screen but SO very portable!

sittingduck · 14 December 2007, 10:44

A couple years back I had winuae running fine on a PIII 450 that was overclocked to 600. A couple of games had a little stuttering, but most ran absolutely fine. Chip got hot, though, but never quit on me

That was with the version of Winuae that was the latest two years ago, by the way.

hamster · 16 December 2007, 02:33

Interesting topic... from the point of view of the cpu usage. My 5 year old p4 1.8Ghz laptop is fast enough - but it sure overheats with the fan coming on within 5 minutes of an amiga title running. Running Winuae it assumes 100% of the cpu which I then limit to about 55-60%. Still fine but fan is annoying.

I guess all the newer laptops are much quieter that those old noisy p4 mobile laptops?

Zetr0 · 16 December 2007, 02:46

hmmmm then i must be really doing something wrong....

my Turion 64bitx2 3500, running XP stutters on sound albiet an OCS/ECS or AGA

hmmmm...

Shoonay · 16 December 2007, 11:43

That's because you doesn't has the Vista Ultimate x64 to actually take advantage of all that POWA, Z!

10 March 2008, 11:17

I've installed the latest WUAE on my Asus EEE PC (4G version - Celeron 630 MHz with 2GB RAM) and it seems to work well for A1200 Kick3.0 ROM (AGA) games via ADFs. However I can not get it to boot the Workbench 3.x ADF and therefoe can not add a hard drive :-(

Has anyone managed to add a hard drive or hardfile and install Workbench to the HD on their EEE PC?

Thanks

musojon74 · 10 March 2008, 13:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zetr0

hmmmm then i must be really doing something wrong....

my Turion 64bitx2 3500, running XP stutters on sound albiet an OCS/ECS or AGA

hmmmm...

Any specific games Zetr0? My laptop has a 1.6 Turion 64 X2 with Vista 64Ult, I'd be interested to see if that stutters (haven't used WinUAE for a while, still playing with my a1200 now it's 060'ed!)

@Wandeep - have you tried the INstall3.0 disk, which should also be bootable, to see if that works? Does the Wb3.0 adf boot up OK on another machine running WUAE?

P-J · 10 March 2008, 14:32

RSN (on here) uses like a 1.2 duron or something similar and that's fairly old technology now. I think he can play A500 stuff without problems so you have a decent chance.

(We have an EEE PC here at work. I'll test it out if you like?)

Calgor · 10 March 2008, 14:33

@Zetr0

I remember an older version of WinUAE taking up more CPU power depending on the sound frequency selected in the sound config. May just have been my hardware/software combo rather than winuae itself.

However, I still have to at least set the sound buffer to 4 to prevent crackly sound on intensive games.

This on a Pentium M1.6 with Nvidia Fx5200Go laptop with crappy sound codec.

10 March 2008, 15:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by musojon74

Any specific games Zetr0? My laptop has a 1.6 Turion 64 X2 with Vista 64Ult, I'd be interested to see if that stutters (haven't used WinUAE for a while, still playing with my a1200 now it's 060'ed!)

@Wandeep - have you tried the INstall3.0 disk, which should also be bootable, to see if that works? Does the Wb3.0 adf boot up OK on another machine running WUAE?

Yeah I have tried both WB and Install disks, neither works on my Asus EEE PC. Both work on my desktop pc though, so I am assuming it's a performance/spec issue on the EEE?

12 December 2007, 09:26	#1
Methanoid Retired Quartex Sysop Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Roman Verulamium Age: 58 Posts: 1,874	Lowest Spec for WinUAE ?? I'm considering the new Asus EEE PC and it runs a 600mhz ULV Celeron (supposedly a 900mhz but you have to overclock to get that). I'm wondering if WinUAE will run on that at all. It's been ages since I had that slow a CPU Or is it time for WinFellow or frameskip 5 etc etc? Anyone got a slow PC around?

12 December 2007, 13:40	#10
Bloodwych Moderator Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: I'm behind you! Posts: 3,763	I had WinUAE running on a Celeron 450 (on-die cache) / PC100 SDRAM and it ran A500 games fine. My brother just wanted an internet surfing machine so he got that crappy thing for a while. Can't remember what version it was though - probably not a recent one! I think I tried the latest WinUAE at the time and it just about couldn't manage it without at least 1 frameskip set. In the end, I think I used the famous 0.8.8 (although it could have been newer) and it ran A500 games full speed. Then I took pity on my brother and gave him a not so much but still crap Pentium III 800 / PC133 SDRAM box instead. Surprisingly, that runs the latest WinUAE in A500 mode full speed, with about 65% CPU usage on average! This was while playing Turrican II with all its glorious sound filling the air! Hope this helps. Last edited by Bloodwych; 12 December 2007 at 13:55.

16 December 2007, 02:33	#13
hamster Zone Friend Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Waterford / Ireland Age: 49 Posts: 88	Interesting topic... from the point of view of the cpu usage. My 5 year old p4 1.8Ghz laptop is fast enough - but it sure overheats with the fan coming on within 5 minutes of an amiga title running. Running Winuae it assumes 100% of the cpu which I then limit to about 55-60%. Still fine but fan is annoying. I guess all the newer laptops are much quieter that those old noisy p4 mobile laptops? Last edited by hamster; 16 December 2007 at 02:33. Reason: spelling spelling spelling....

10 March 2008, 14:33	#19
Calgor (Amigas && Amigos)++ Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Anrea Posts: 999	@Zetr0 I remember an older version of WinUAE taking up more CPU power depending on the sound frequency selected in the sound config. May just have been my hardware/software combo rather than winuae itself. However, I still have to at least set the sound buffer to 4 to prevent crackly sound on intensive games. This on a Pentium M1.6 with Nvidia Fx5200Go laptop with crappy sound codec. Last edited by Calgor; 10 March 2008 at 14:40.

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12 December 2007, 09:37	#2
Zetr0 Ya' like it Retr0? Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: United Kingdom Age: 49 Posts: 9,768	@meth i must be doing something wrong... I have an athlon 2400xp chip on my media box and the noise stutters coz its not fast enough...

12 December 2007, 10:04	#3
s2325 Zone Friend Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Gargore Age: 43 Posts: 17,789	You can "play" in slow motion even on 486 66MHz with Fellow (MS-DOS)

12 December 2007, 10:14	#4
Zetr0 Ya' like it Retr0? Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: United Kingdom Age: 49 Posts: 9,768	@s2325 i sense a disturbance in the farce..... the use of the term "play" surely you mean "slowest rolling demo" perhaps.....

12 December 2007, 10:53	#5
musashi5150 move.w #$4489,$dff07e Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Norfolk, UK Age: 42 Posts: 2,351	My Athlon-900 used to emulate an A500 just perfectly. Sometimes used to struggle a little with AGA stuff, but it was still playable.

12 December 2007, 10:56	#6
killergorilla Lesser Talent Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: UK Age: 42 Posts: 7,957	I'm sure you could recompile it without all of the features the current WinUAE has. The xbox port of WinUAE runs pretty much perfectly for everything except AGA and that's a 733mhz celerony thing with only 64mb of RAM!

12 December 2007, 11:25	#8
Toni Wilen WinUAE developer Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Hämeenlinna/Finland Age: 49 Posts: 26,535	Most A500 games work fine with ~1GHz or even slower PC if you configure it properly. Without frameskip. (and it has been posted multiple times here already. as usually.)

12 December 2007, 12:16	#9
Anubis Retro Gamer Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Underworld Age: 51 Posts: 4,065	Why WinFellow is second option when you can download older versions of WinUAE as well?! And why are you getting that slow processor anyway?? I have laptop with 1.5GHz Pentium M and WinUAE works without problem, and still it makes no noise and is great like media center. (I have 160GB hd installed on that laptop, and one 500GB removable HD)

14 December 2007, 10:44	#12
sittingduck Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Aarhus, Denmark Age: 46 Posts: 92	A couple years back I had winuae running fine on a PIII 450 that was overclocked to 600. A couple of games had a little stuttering, but most ran absolutely fine. Chip got hot, though, but never quit on me That was with the version of Winuae that was the latest two years ago, by the way.

16 December 2007, 02:46	#14
Zetr0 Ya' like it Retr0? Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: United Kingdom Age: 49 Posts: 9,768	hmmmm then i must be really doing something wrong.... my Turion 64bitx2 3500, running XP stutters on sound albiet an OCS/ECS or AGA hmmmm...

16 December 2007, 11:43	#15
Shoonay Global Caturator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Porando Age: 43 Posts: 6,107	That's because you doesn't has the Vista Ultimate x64 to actually take advantage of all that POWA, Z!

10 March 2008, 11:17	#16
wandeep Posts: n/a	I've installed the latest WUAE on my Asus EEE PC (4G version - Celeron 630 MHz with 2GB RAM) and it seems to work well for A1200 Kick3.0 ROM (AGA) games via ADFs. However I can not get it to boot the Workbench 3.x ADF and therefoe can not add a hard drive :-( Has anyone managed to add a hard drive or hardfile and install Workbench to the HD on their EEE PC? Thanks

10 March 2008, 14:32	#18
P-J Registered User Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Moorpark, California Age: 44 Posts: 1,153	RSN (on here) uses like a 1.2 duron or something similar and that's fairly old technology now. I think he can play A500 stuff without problems so you have a decent chance. (We have an EEE PC here at work. I'll test it out if you like?)

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