As for the best Apple II emulator, I prefer KEGS hands down. In response to your comments about KEGS, I have never had any problem viewing 3200 color images with KEGS, but you have to set KEGS to 2.8Mhz to view them properly.
As for AppleWin emulating a faster Apple II, I must disagree. At the fastest speeds, KEGS seems at least 10 times faster than AppleWin at it's fastest speed, at least using Silvern Castle as a comparision. BTW, AppleWin does allow up to 2 hard drive images if you are using the latest version 1.12.6.0 -Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Apple2list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Antonio Rodríguez Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 12:51 AM To: Apple2list Subject: Re: Apple //Gs on a pci card 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. >> >> >> > > > -- Apple2list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Apple2list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/apple2.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:apple2list@mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/apple2list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com -- Apple2list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Apple2list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/apple2.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:apple2list@mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/apple2list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
