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Sshado

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Cheap PC OK?
« on: September 23, 2003, 10:57:10 am »
I am currently using an AMD 1.4ghz for my arcade, but that is actually my best computer and am thinking about placing it at my desk to play some MMORPG's on it.

I am wondering if a Celeron 366mhz with a TnT2 Video card would be good enough to play MOST of the MAME roms.

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Re:Cheap PC OK?
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2003, 11:00:15 am »
if you were to use and older version of MAME, I'm pretty sure you'd be able to play a good number of the games in MAME.
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Re:Cheap PC OK?
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2003, 11:09:08 am »
You will want to look at some other emulators... Vintage, Retrocade, Spacade, NeoRageX, ect.... They run better then mame on older machines.

Plus you will want to run an older version of mame... A version around when that was a decent machine... .36 is probably a good place to start (I think that was when they changed the default bpp from 8bits.  That slowed a bunch of games down).

You might also want to move to dos... you will get another group of games runnign then...

No hardware stretching, or any other nice feature like that...  You might also want to drop the sound quality down.

Don't expect much or new... But if you like classics... there are a lot of people here who put machines of that caliber in their cabinets.

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Re:Cheap PC OK?
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2003, 11:13:18 am »
Hmmm, maybe I will just stick with it and build a new PC soon.

Thanks for the responses.

Sshado