Re: IIGS Laptop

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Smohn Jith wrote:
> limtc wrote:
> 
>>Ultracool, but I doubt he is willing to just sell to 12 of us. :)
>>
>>The other alternative is to get a current laptop and install a good
>>emulator on it. However, I am not sure what's the best - if possible,
>>something DOS-based that launched GS immediately in full screen will
>>be enough.
>>
> 
> This is something I would love to have.  An older laptop that can be
> made to run an emulator right off the bat.  Ben's mod is cool, but it's
> still 2.8 mhz.  I would like something a bit faster, possibly with
> ethernet capability...

This is pretty easy to do with laptops that can hibernate.

If you want to turn it *completely* off, then just put
the emulator in the startup folder--but then you'll have
to wait for it to boot.

-michael

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