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GGKoul:
Now that I got my new computer parts.

I'm going to start creating my PC  for my Mame cabinet.  But I have a question... what Windows OS is preferred to run a Mame cabinet?

As I was planning on using Win98...  because if there's ever a configuration problem.  I'm unable to configure the IPAC4 on 2000/XP.

But is that the only reason?  Please advise...

As i would like us XP instead because, in my opinion, it's the best Windows OS out there..

Thanks
-GGKoul

dvdapex:
I currently use Win98LITE with the Win95 shell (it cuts out a lot of the crap that I'll NEVER use with my arcade machine).  I'm using mame32.  I don't see any reason to use 2000 or WinXP if all you're going to be doing is playing MAME.

Carsten Carlos:
MAME seems to run perfect on WinXP, as it does on my main-PC. Although I choosed to use a W98-system for my cab 'cause some other emulators I plan to use (e.g. Atari800win) stutter in the sound.
You could always use a dos-disk for conffiguration-issues, so this is not that much of a problem.

slug54:
I would like to run xp on my cab because I like the boot speed ,The stability, and how you can set it to show absolutely no icons on the desktop.

but I have problems running some of winamps visualizations that I really love and I can't get
Worms Armegeddon to run on it.

So I'll probably run 98SE

                Slug54

Drew:
XP runs all my roms fine (plan to have a cab this summer). I don't know about the ipac, but I would almost be sure that it runs in xp. It's probably on the ipac website.

I suggest xp because it is the most stable microsoft os I have ever used, and in my experience has had fewer compatibility problems than 2k (2k has a lot of funky hardware problems that are annoying to troubleshoot, and companies are more focused on supporting xp).

98 is a murky lake of blue screens.

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