So, my old mame PC died a few weeks ago. Time for a rebuild...pardon if this is the wrong forum for this.
My setup is/was an IPAC-4 PS2 with an AGP ArcadeVGA diving a Polo standard res monitor. Should date the build fairly well
I am hoping to keep the IPAC and was wondering if there were any known issues with motherboards that use the "combo" PS/2 port, modern OS's etc. For me the only PS2 device would be the IPAC.
Now onto the real debate...cpu and video solutions.
I am leaning towards an i3-9100f solution for the cpu. Probably overkill, but they seem to be a good modern bang for the buck even when compared against what I could find for used machines. I like the 65w aspect as well.
I'm obviously going to ditch the AGP ArcadeVGA (it still works great but I don't want to fix this machine or build a new one around it). So my debate is the newer ArcadeVGA vs CRT Emu \ ATOM-15.
I have ultimarc video amp but no JPAC etc to help protect the monitor during boot. What is the state of the ATOM-15 route? I've seen some posts that indicate it's fairly hit or miss when trying to use with certain cards. I am willing to spend some time on this but I'm also willing to pay up for a new ArcadeVGA to get things working and stable. Since I pretty much run standard res games and some MK i'm not *that* concerned about some of the games that won't be 100% native. But it's hard not to like what Calamity has done so I'm fairly torn here.
The linux route sounds great but I plan on using HyperSpin still so I think that rules linux out.
Any advice would be great!