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SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: JoeB on June 03, 2004, 10:45:46 am ---Are you serious? I got XP running on a spare machine super fast.. (not for MAME.. but rather just word processing, internet and photoshop). The box is a 500 Mhz P3 with 500MB of RAM!
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What do you mean? I run mame on a PIII 500 with 256 megs of ram :)
Howard_Casto:
Ewwe... xp without the xp look. That's almost as bad as that hack to make 98 look like 3.11. ;)
TalkingOctopus:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on June 03, 2004, 11:10:20 am ---
--- Quote from: JoeB on June 03, 2004, 10:45:46 am ---Are you serious? I got XP running on a spare machine super fast.. (not for MAME.. but rather just word processing, internet and photoshop). The box is a 500 Mhz P3 with 500MB of RAM!
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What do you mean? I run mame on a PIII 500 with 256 megs of ram :)
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well this pc was patched together with a bunch of old rejected components sitting around. It has an ancient hard drive and only 128 MB of ram. All of the caching kills it :-\
MnMCaputo:
Heres a program i use with xp, its automatically changes some settings and stops some processes. Basically, prior to using it I scored a 1512 on the over system benchmark from www.pcpitstop.com but after running the program, i scored 1554, not a HUGE difference but still good enough to mention
http://www.xpantispy.org/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=26&func=fileinfo&parent=category&filecatid=5
AlanS17:
I had XP running my MAME machine on a 450Mhz machine with 256MB of RAM and it worked just fine. I don't see why some people have such trouble with older hardware or why so many people insist on having the newest, greatest PC for emulation...