$49 Android PC - UAE4Droid Potential?
 

Hi Guys (and Ladies too)

I came across this a while back. A $49 Android motherboard with possibly some potential for Amiga emulation. The details are a bit lacking, but is has a Raspberry PI sort of coolness factor to it. Naturally I was thinking of usage with UAE and wondered how difficult the current UAE4Droid would be to port to this.

Web site is : http://apc.io/about/

UAE4Droid is at: http://www.appbrain.com/app/uae4droid/org.ab.uae

Talk amongst yourselves...

Re: $49 Android PC - UAE4Droid Potential?
 

Do any of the android UAE ports allow hard drive files to run the OS? All I've seen are simpler versions that only run floppy images, but I want to run OS3.9 and applications...

Re: $49 Android PC - UAE4Droid Potential?
 

Dont think so....

And note on the website for this that it says you WONT be able to use Android market/GooglePlay.... I wonder why that is....

Now if any of the UAE4droid and AnUAE4All would copy WinUAEs built in networking as well as hard file access we could run a BBS on a cheap Android device.. even a mobile phone!

Re: $49 Android PC - UAE4Droid Potential?
 

Looking at this you would be best investing in a Pi. Can't help but feel these droid powered knock offs are going to be more of a headache than actual use.

Re: $49 Android PC - UAE4Droid Potential?
 

I agree - go for the device that will have the largest group of users and the best support as a result. Right now that is the RPi. Higher up is the Pandaboard.

As for performance, I remember running UAE on a PII 233 back in 1998. That was before JIT and all that, and it was perfectly usable with P96. A 700MHz ARM11 should cope better (although possibly not an amazing amount better). Of course, that will require hardfile support, etc.

Re: $49 Android PC - UAE4Droid Potential?
 

Why is this in the news section? Are we going to put an ad for every cheap-ass mobo that can run UAE in some variety on the front page? Sheeesh.... are we that desperate for news?