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Kangum:

I bought a hp dm1-4010us 11 inch laptop. it has a AMD-E450 1.65 cpu a AMD 6320 gpu and 8 gigs of ram and a 320 7200rpm hard drive. Ive owned netbooks in the past so I knew what to expect. It was definitely better then an intel atom machine. I thought to myself, what the heck. if i dont like it i can throw it in my pacman coctail. well that isnt going to happen. it couldnt even run castlevania. it was pitiful. I dont know if its because im running 144 or what. the machine wont run 99% of the games. it sucks. I am so disappointed with the machine now. I guess for the 350 i paid for it i shouldnt expect much. but still. sigh.

DaveMMR:

Try using an older MAME version.

Samstag:

Yeah go for an older version.  I'm using an ancient ITX Epia board running somewhere around 400MHz and it plays all the classics great.

Kangum:

ok i will give it a shot. the only "older" mame set i have is .36 i dont even think coctail flipping was added yet.

BobA:

I use .132 and .139 with Intel atom single and dual cores and most classics play fine and many of the other games such as NeoGeo. The only problem area I have consistantly is when using CHDs although Area51 works well and some of the other less demanding CHDs.

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