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benefit to upgrading from 98E to w2k/XP?
Halen:
Is there anyone out there who has upgraded from 98 to any of the newer OS's and found things to be better, worse or pretty much the same with the win32 version of MAME?
Thanks,
DMA
ArcadeFX:
I just downgraded from Win2k to 98. Win2k is not a very good game OS at all. I found 98 was much better when it comes to fps and mame
Also, IPac isn't supported by Win2k. I don't think XP is either.
Also, many of my PC games like NFL Blitz are not support on Win2k or XP. If you are looking at a dedicated cabinet OS I would go with 98SE.
What else are you using your machine for?
Halen:
I only run Mame, Impact, Modeler, and U64emu on it, it's currently in my cabinet. As far as I've read, Ipac works fine under W2k/XP, it's the programming utility that isn't. I use the mame preset on it anyway, so that's not an important thing to me. I've been thinking of running a few PC games on it like MK4 or Golden Tee, but I haven't gotten around to buying them yet.
DMA
Howard_Casto:
Mk4 and golden tee both work on xp (and im assuming they would on 2000 as well)
Using the default mame layout wont work for impact, but it will for modeler btw. (Impact's joystick plugin wont recognize some of the more exotic mame keys.) But a simple boot disk will solve that problem.
Here's the deal with upgarding to xp... first of all make sure you have a best of a machine, since it needs way more resources than 98.
A reason to upgrade? Well if you had problems with 98 crashing your not going to have those probs in xp. I personally couldn't live without xp now. However, on a dedicated cab 98 will do just fine.
Howard_Casto:
Afx is right..... in my opinon 2000 sucks. Alot of people think 2000 and xp are virtually the same, and in alot of ways they are. But subtle differences make them different enough to where i would recommend upgrading to xp but NOT recommend upgrading to 2000. Regardless of what others will tell you xp has superior hardware and software support over 2000. 2000 has better networking suppport, but that shouldn't apply in this situation. I've also found that many games that won't run in 2000 will run in xp.