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paigeoliver:
Hee hee. I champion .55 all the time. It may be feature light, but no important titles are broken in that version and it will run full speed on a 400 mhz processor.


--- Quote from: brad808 on November 28, 2012, 06:14:38 pm ---I'm on 0.146 right now. I usually update every few full number versions (no u updates) mainly out of lack of anything better to do most weekends. Plus little things get added along the way that eventually add up to make it a lot more pleasent. Things like hsls, actual names for inputs (inputs will read "light punch" instead of "button 1" so you can actually tell what you're assigning), new games, updated drivers. I installed an old version, not exactly sure maybe 0.38?, about a year ago to throw onto a pentium 4 and it was very clear that mame has come a long way  :o. Forget what the stubborn people on version 0.000001 say they just haven't seen the light  :laugh2:

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rCadeGaming:
I would read the "What's New" file for each version when it comes out to decide if there's anything important to you worth the update.

PaigeOliver, there are tons of great games added since .55.  I think you may have a fairly narrow definition of "important titles."  True, MAME has become more and more demanding, but why would you want anything to do with a 400mhz processor?  3+ GHz computers are super cheap these days.  You could probably get something with a lot more than 400mhz for free.

One thing about newer versions is that input lag for some games has increased since around version 100.  Supposed it's getting better again now though.  Anyone have any info on this?
M.Lanza:
I still run .98.
Might upgrade to a newer X64 bit version as I had
recently aquired a beast of a gaming notebook.

Or, I might hold out untill the newer megatouch lines
are emulated, but that could be a while.
404:
0.145 for the rig attached to my tv (I still don't have a cab)

I have two other small form factor units here. One is a retired POS system running 0.106, that was the last official build before the big change in the graphics rendering that significantly increased the graphical hardware requirements. 1ghz PIII processor, 1gb ram all running on PC100 FSB. Runs tons of games.





Haze:
Yeah, if you're running something as old as 0.55 you'll be missing a lot of stuff.

http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2012/11/06/italy-gets-a-planet-probe-part-2/

from 1985 for example was only added in the current version, maybe you don't care about it, but it's a classic era game which a whole bunch of Italians who remembered it did care about seeing emulated, these things do show up from time to time :-)

Another recent classic era (also 1985) addition was Sky Destroyer

http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2012/07/30/burning-skies/

although the sound still needs sorting out

and those are only from recent months, there has been a steady flow of interesting *classic* additions to MAME for many years now, it surprises even me that things keep showing up out of the blue.

of course, doing development I always run the cutting edge latest SVN build of UME, which is the combined sum of MAME and MESS, if I'm doing actual development I have to be current for rather obvious reasons ;-)
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