Gaming looking for emulators for my crappy laptop

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Linux is pretty awful for emulators in general.

That. Some linux builds of the emulator are outdated and often don't work properly. /me rages at ePSXe, Mupen64 and pSX.

It shouldn't be hard to set up a 4GB partition and install Micro XP or another tiny XP distribution..

 

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Since you are already somewhat familiar with Linux, I cannot recomend this disk more

It is simply awesome when it comes to emulation.

http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/...8-livecd-105mb/

I use Puppy linux and a customer version of that installed on a Laptop with a 1.4Ghz celeron with 256MB's of RAM (shared with the graphics card so its actually 8MB's less)

amazingly I can get Symphony of the night running pretty good on the PSX emu (although it chugs if I turn on too many graphics goodies)

Edit: Sadly I was not able to find a decent solution to play Atari 7800 games

Food Fight for the win!!! lol
ok so i've gotten puppy arcade 9 installed on a new partition i made, but i CANNOT get it to show up as an option under GRUB (which I got from ubuntu 10.10 so i think it's grub 2) (i have installed burg and tried it, but then made it restore grub although when I boot is says Burg 1.9somethingsomething)

When puppy arcade 9 told me how to add it to grub, it said:
QUOTEFind the "menu.lst" file (usually in /boot/grub in the partition in which grub is installed) and insert this:
titleuppy Linux 420 full install in sda4
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda4 pmedia=attahd nosmp

...for your convenience this text had been written to /tmp/NEWGRUBTEXT

so I realized that these instructions are for legacy grub, so instead of putting that text in menu.lst i put it in /etc/burg.d/40_custom as according to this

problem is that did nothing and still have no way of booting my newly installed puppy arcade 9, my question is, how do i update my os entries to include Puppy Arcade 9 (in a new partition and fully installed) while I have the grub that comes with ubuntu 10.10 and have tried burg manager but then used the option in it to restore grub

Edit: I've tried sudo update-grub in the console and it identified puppy arcade 9 as an unknown linux distro, but it still doesn't show up

I've also tried sudo update-burg but I get "sudo: update-burg: command not found"

PS. i'm typing this in Ubuntu