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wizkid32:
I had a PC with similar specs., and was going to use it in my cabinet.  I recently upgraded, however, to a AMD Athlon powerhouse, with a whopping 512 megs. of RAM.  :applaud:
I'd try MAME .7X, and run something like MAMEWAH or some other LITE front end.
And stick with Windows 98.  That's what my upgraded PC is running.  ;)

Why 98?

Stable
Compact
Fast
Compatible (with all but the newest games)
Low System Requirements
I Already Had A Licensed Copy  8)
Jack Burton:
Don't use 98.  Windows XP is going to be more compatible with a variety of emulators and will not use any more resources.  In fact, there are versions of XP out there that use far less than off the shelf 98.  License shmicense. 

This computer should do fine with hundred of classic games running on older emulators.  

What kind of slots does the motherboard have on it?  Get an old AGP Nvidia card and a smaller PC CRT and use advancemame.  You can run games in their native resolution and use advancemenu as your front end.  Very barebones and efficient.  
Blanka:
With that little power, you could as well run a gameduino.
GregD:
Why use this pc?   Are you trying to challenge yourself?   You can pick up a pc with far better specs than this for free.   At least you are reusing the machine and it isn't in some electronics dump in Sri Lanka.
compute:
BITD I ran quite a few games on my 300mhz Celeron with Win98.  This was around .40 or so.  Classics ran very well.  As long as you're using an old enough version of MAME, you should be able to run quite a few games.  That PC has about the same specs as an Xbox, and those run MAME quite well.
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