Can I run ZSNES on an OQO?

jollygamer321 · Post by **jollygamer321** » Wed May 23, 2007 5:43 am

Hey, I'm probably going to be getting an OQO soon, and it isn't so fast (what can you expect? its almost the size of a GBA...). Its got 1.5GHz, 1GB of RAM. You think thats enough to run ZSNES? I would be pretty amazed if it is. I just got a Retro USB SNES adapter, so if it can run it ill have a portable NES and SNES. How awesome would that be? Never get board again. But yeah, is it enough to run it? I guess if I turned off the sound or something it might be? Thanks

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Wed May 23, 2007 6:06 am

a pentium 2 400mhz with 64mb of memory and win9x is fast enough for it.

make sure you got the latest direct X... a compatible operating system and a x86 compliant CPU.

jollygamer321 · Post by **jollygamer321** » Wed May 23, 2007 6:18 am

Dang, sweet. It'll should be able to run it then. Thanks.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Wed May 23, 2007 7:28 am

A VIA processor.. this smells of extreme disappointment because performance per MHz, VIA is way behind any processor that is in this catagory.. including the an Athlon T-Bird and the slowest P4s.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Wed May 23, 2007 8:02 am

ooh, i didn't know it had a via processor, yea they are the worst brand you can get.

Post by **pagefault** » Wed May 23, 2007 4:20 pm

It's fine for a mobile processor.

Baldho · Post by **Baldho** » Wed May 23, 2007 5:32 pm

As I recall, VIA bought Cyrix from Texas Instruments and turned it into a heatsink less CPU.

Cyrix was the worst CPU I could remember, along with the IDT Winchip...

I don't know if their performance raised with VIA. I do beleive they are no Athlon or P4 though...

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Wed May 23, 2007 9:47 pm

If you want a mobile SNES, get one of these, ffs.

It's about the same price as the OQO, and has a INTEL Core Solo CPU. The CPU is about 1.33GHz and has a 40GB Hard Drive, but hey, better than VIA, right?

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Wed May 23, 2007 10:44 pm

adventure_of_link wrote:If you want a mobile SNES, get one of these, ffs.

It's about the same price as the OQO, and has a INTEL Core Solo CPU. The CPU is about 1.33GHz and has a 40GB Hard Drive, but hey, better than VIA, right?

I have been wanting to get one of these. But it might be a waste as I wouldn't use the cell network.

Kerilk · Post by **Kerilk** » Fri May 25, 2007 3:57 pm

I have a C5 at 800 Mhz, with a GB of ram and running windows XP.
Playing zsnes flawlessly in 1280*1024 using bilinear filtering and 22khz.
But if anything runs in the background it starts skipping frames.

The model shown has a processor that is more than twice as fast, (C7 more efiicient than C5 clock for clock) so it should be more than enough to run zsnes on it especially since the resolution is only 800*480. I'm a bit worried by the windows vista it runs though, 1Gb of ram might not be enough...

Anyway I would not go for a VIA. Performance /Watt cannot match those of the core architecture.

Baldho · Post by **Baldho** » Fri May 25, 2007 6:39 pm

Anyway I would not go for a VIA. Performance /Watt cannot match those of the core architecture.

After some googling, I saw some sites including AMD's that claim that AMD is the best about perf/watt...

Interresting topic...

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Fri May 25, 2007 7:32 pm

AMD processors (Athlon64 arhitecture) were the best performers in terms of perf/watt on desktops by a large margin until the Core 2 architecture was introduced in mid-2006. Athlon64 Vs Core Solo or Athlon64 X2 Vs Core Duo would probably be more on a par in terms of perf/watt.