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[glitch]

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...

[billt]

Originally Posted by glitch

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.

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...

[Methanoid]

Originally Posted by billt

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...

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!

[CritAnime]

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.

[Hattig]

Originally Posted by CritAnime

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.

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.

[Tripitaka]

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?