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Oak polystained Walnut Cocktail Build to feature in Living room. Lotsa photos!
javeryh:
I have a disc with "Tiny XP" on it that I use for all of my cabs. It does a basic install of XP without all of the crap that might bog down the computer. I'm sure you can find it with a Google search.
extendedplayarcade:
I wonder if this will work?
http://download.cnet.com/Microsoft-Windows-XP-Home-Edition/3000-18513_4-20432.html
I mean I have the product key just would love to start with a fresh install and never did a Home Edition XP before. Never needed to.
--- Quote from: javeryh on May 19, 2011, 02:01:04 pm ---I have a disc with "Tiny XP" on it that I use for all of my cabs. It does a basic install of XP without all of the crap that might bog down the computer. I'm sure you can find it with a Google search.
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Donkbaca:
Can someone explain the advantage of Tiny XP to me? My guess is that its less resource intensive because it gets rid of the unneeded processes, and that its smaller in foot print. But an AMD 64 is plenty powerful enough to run whatever you would put in a cocktail, and he could always add another gig of RAM dirt cheap. Plus hard drives are so cheap, what's the point of saving a few megabytes on the OS install? What am I not getting?
I was curious as to why you have an arcade VGA. My understanding was the main usefulness of those was the ability to connect them to arcade monitors.
Thanks
javeryh:
I think that's the only reason people like it. I typically only use old(er) computers for MAME which is why I opt for Tiny XP. It is easy to install and it doesn't hog resources. I think it uses less than 100MB of RAM total which makes a difference on some computers where I only have 1GB of RAM or less available.
extendedplayarcade:
Oh I didn't even realize that "Tiny XP" was an OS install. I was scratching my head about about that one but with your explination I get it. Wow the things I learn here.
I was going to put this computer on my golden Tee but decided to put it on my cocktail table. I haven't done a side by side test but I heard it is suppose to emulate the games better even on an LCD screen. But I could be wrong.
I'll find out and get back to ya. I have access to 4 xp machines that are all cleaned up and ready to be mamed if I wanted to but I was thinkin of going with the amd 64 seeing it has a little more juice then the P4 xp machines that are ready to be mamed. I salvaged them all after doing an IT job for someone.
My test machine is a p3 and it runs all the classics perfect. There is the machine i have those monitor screen shots I took. Plays DK perfect (as it should) but I think my wife wants some pinball games on this and maybe even a jukebox. So i figured the AMD 64 should handle it well.
The next build after this is to Mame the Golden Tee and only put trackball games in it. Should be fun but yet again I am taking my time and doing this cocktail right. The build is fun btw (a lot more fun then I imagined even though I am just basicly drilling holes in the build)
--- Quote from: Donkbaca on May 19, 2011, 02:51:56 pm ---Can someone explain the advantage of Tiny XP to me? My guess is that its less resource intensive because it gets rid of the unneeded processes, and that its smaller in foot print. But an AMD 64 is plenty powerful enough to run whatever you would put in a cocktail, and he could always add another gig of RAM dirt cheap. Plus hard drives are so cheap, what's the point of saving a few megabytes on the OS install? What am I not getting?
I was curious as to why you have an arcade VGA. My understanding was the main usefulness of those was the ability to connect them to arcade monitors.
Thanks
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