The machine you are looking at is more than capable to run an Apple //gs
emulator. The 5 Gb hard drive even lets you put almost all of the Asimov
archive into it!
I haven't got much practice with //gs emulators, but I use KEGS from
time to time, and have not had any problem, other than some applications
refusing to display 3200 color images. It can use big virtual hard
drives (up to 2 Gb if you format them in HFS), and can use both
compressed an uncompressed 5.25" (140 Kb) and 3.5" (800 Kb) disk images.
For emulating an 8 bit Apple II, I prefer AppleWin, which has a
friendlier user interface and is also about twice as fast emulating a
65C02 CPU (~300 Mhz versus the ~170 Mhz obtained by KEGS, both measured
on my AMD Sempron 2400+). AppleWin emulates an 128 Kb Apple //e
Enhanced, or a 64 Kb Apple II+, and supports only 5.25" disk images (no
hard drive support!). I have used it extensively and have found no bug
or incompatibility in it, except perhaps its lack of support for the
double lo-res graphics mode (which anyway is used by almost no programs).
About emulating a //gs in a Mac laptop, I have no precise idea of what
you need, but I think I have read that most emulators require at least a
PowerPC processor.
Greetings,
Antonio Rodríguez (Grijan)
<ftp://grijan.cjb.net:21000/>
Steve escribió:
So could you see purchasing something like http://tinyurl.com/9kpz9, getting
Win9x on it, and setting KEGS to automatically startup? Is KEGS so complete
that I'd not miss my IIGS (impossible I know, I'm jus interested in a
features comparison)? Or would purchasing something like
http://tinyurl.com/8mpga with Bernie work out better?
Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: Apple2list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Antonio
Rodríguez
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 10:16 PM
To: Apple2list
Subject: Re: Apple //Gs on a pci card
On the PC side, any old '486 laptop with 8 or 16 Mb of RAM will be able
to run most (if not all) Apple II and //GS emulators out there, at least
at original speed. '486 laptops go for a song nowadays, so they can be
the cheapest Apple II portables.
Greetings,
Antonio Rodríguez (Grijan)
<ftp://grijan.cjb.net:21000/>
P.S.: I think some Apple //GS emulators use (require?) DirectDraw, and
older graphics chipsets may not be supported by DirectX, so that's why I
say "most" instead of "all". If you find a laptop with hardware DirectX
support, not only you will be able to run all emulators, but many of
them will run faster.
Steve escribió:
What is the cheapest laptop out there (Mac or PeeCee) that will run a IIGS
emulator well? I guess it should have a floppy drive.
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