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Windows 98, XP, DOS, or Linux?
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: nipsmg on June 08, 2004, 12:50:46 pm --- YOU KNOW windows. Go to http://www.asoftwaresolutions.com/product.asp?productid=481&categoryid=54 and order XP Pro for $120. They're OEM Versions, I dunno if they're supposed to be selling them,
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funny you mention that, because i finally got sick of my pc turning itself off at any old time. so i only just ordered xp pro (oem, i think it must be more readily available than it used to be). now i can finally reformat my c drive (all my files are on a different drive) and its goodbye mystery problem!! of course knowing my luck the problem will end up being just a loose connection! but how hard can it be to put a pc together? five months old and its already crap! im just glad the same people arent building aircraft!
btw, even once i have an actual xp cd, ill still run win98se on my cab. its all set up now and nothing crashes.
and yes, i have put a pc together. the question was purely rhetorical (",)
nipsmg:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on June 09, 2004, 12:23:18 am ---Note, hyperthreading doesn't affect mame, but the speed does.
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Well, it can indirectly, supposedly.
Background processes running while MAME is running can benefit from it, allowing a bit (albiet a small amount) more speed for running MAME itself.
That and the boot time. It's insane how fast my PC boots.
The hyperthreaded processor really does give the overall system performance a noticeable speed boost.
--NipsMG
SirPoonga:
Interesting, as hyperthreading shouldn't affect bootup too much. At least until windows get control of the system, then there would be a little speed up. But the hyperthreading procs are still the ultra fast 2Ghz+. I don't notice that much of an increase on my duel celeron system when I use one or two procs for booting up and playing mame. And that's at 366Mhz x2.
captainpotato:
--- Quote from: vputz on June 07, 2004, 10:07:46 am ---
I will say this: I absolutely love Linux, and I absolutely would not recommend it to the casual cab builder unless they are already familiar and comfortable with it. Maybe one of the bootable MAME distributions. Just getting TV-out working correctly was a hassle.
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Vputz, what sort of issues did you have? I'm planning to use AdvanceMAME in my cab using a TV (RGB or SCART hopefully). I'm not a Linux newbie and my machines all run it well, but I am curious to know how hard it was to configure.
Chris:
I'm running Windows 98SE because of the dual lightguns; I'll probably upgrade to XP sometime in the near future to (hopefully) solve some sound issues. But if I could go back in time I never would have left DOS, and any future MAME-only cabinets I build will be DOS.
--Chris