Specs for retropie on Linux?

spruce_m00se

I have found three old laptops dumpster diving.
Two have a 2.0ghz dual core cpu, one has 2.5ghz dual core.
The ram, well in total I have 9 gig of ram that has checked out ok from the dumpster dive, (there were a lot of even older laptops)

One laptop has a 2.0ghz with 32mb graphics,
one is 2.0 ghz with 128mb graphics,
and one is 2.5ghz with 128mb graphics.

Im thinking of putting XP on one, (the 32mb graphics) and running launch box with all my old pc games installed.

I was wondering if the other two would be any good for running retropie or similar under linux? Obviously they can handle old 16 bit consoles, but I dont know what specs are needed on the graphics card for some of the newer mame stuff and perhaps ps1 or dreamcast.
Any ideas?

spruce_m00se

Well I got XP on the 2.0ghz 32mb gpu laptop and got command and conquer on it with a small learning curve along the way. (havent used xp for ages:()

Does no-one have any input as to whether or not I should try the linux retropie ?

herb_fargus

@spruce_m00se said in Specs for retropie on Linux?:

as to whether or not I should try the linux retropie

Never hurts to try something new

Neo-Rio

I’ve run retropie on a 3Ghz Pentium 4 with 4G of RAM and it all works. You don’t need too much to get it all going.

With modern equipment, I have an AMD A6-9500 with 4G RAM and built in graphics and that is more than enough

I’ve used lubuntu 16.04LTS on really old builds.
There is a lubuntu 18.04 in 32-bit if you want it. Note that 18.04 needs to be set to using Wayland at time of writing because Xorg gives libretro a hard time.