Ok so I have this laptop that's pretty much useless to me since a lot of the keys don't work on it, and what I've decided to do with it is to hook it up to my TV via s-video and:
1. Be able to stream music/video to it and play through my home theater
2. Use it's hard drive space as a network partition
3. Use it as an emulation machine to be able to play multiple systems on my TV with a USB gamepad
Now the first 2 I had no problem with, and I have gotten several "lesser" systems than N64 working just fine, but I really wanna push this thing and see if I can get N64 running acceptably. Currently, using a default 1964 setup with gln64 and azimers audio, it can play Mario 64 but it doesn't stay at a good speed. For example it will run at a decent framerate inside the castle, but there is some slowdown, but if I go to one of the worlds it becomes unplayably slow, which I'm sure would happen with many other games I'd like to play on it. The system specs for this thing are:
2.4ghz P4-generation celeron CPU
256mb ram
intel i845 graphics (8 mb shared memory :S)
I have a special windows setup that uses only 40mb of the system memory so most of the resources are available for the emulator. Is there any hope for this?
On a related matter, I'm using the program Xpadder to emulate mouse/keystrokes through my USB gamepad and it's the only thing that runs in the background. Does anybody know if there is a more lightweight program to accomplish this, or one that can switch key profiles when different apps are in focus?
1. Be able to stream music/video to it and play through my home theater
2. Use it's hard drive space as a network partition
3. Use it as an emulation machine to be able to play multiple systems on my TV with a USB gamepad
Now the first 2 I had no problem with, and I have gotten several "lesser" systems than N64 working just fine, but I really wanna push this thing and see if I can get N64 running acceptably. Currently, using a default 1964 setup with gln64 and azimers audio, it can play Mario 64 but it doesn't stay at a good speed. For example it will run at a decent framerate inside the castle, but there is some slowdown, but if I go to one of the worlds it becomes unplayably slow, which I'm sure would happen with many other games I'd like to play on it. The system specs for this thing are:
2.4ghz P4-generation celeron CPU
256mb ram
intel i845 graphics (8 mb shared memory :S)
I have a special windows setup that uses only 40mb of the system memory so most of the resources are available for the emulator. Is there any hope for this?
On a related matter, I'm using the program Xpadder to emulate mouse/keystrokes through my USB gamepad and it's the only thing that runs in the background. Does anybody know if there is a more lightweight program to accomplish this, or one that can switch key profiles when different apps are in focus?
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