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How do I erase everything in my computer?
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Lilwolf:
thats not really true.

if you have an older computer... Download an older version of mame.  One that was considered acceptable at the time.

Sure you might miss out on some new games and some old games added later... But you will still get TONS of games to run...

The harder part is to get the roms...
javeryh:
I'm not sure what the speed is - how do I find out?  I am only going to be using this computer to play 80s games - Pac-Man, Mr. Do, 1942 and the like so I don't think it has to be that powerful.  I just want to start fresh with it so I can use it for nothing else but mame.  I am planning to build a mini-cab eventually and give it to my goddaughter...  
Crazy Cooter:
Download and run the program "cpuid".  That will tell you quite a bit about your system.
NoOne=NBA=:
The one caution I would add to this is to make sure you CAN boot it up after erasing everything--BEFORE you erase everything.

I had an HP Pentium 200 that I inherited from work several years ago, and it was a complete pain to load ANYTHING onto.
It had a hard drive go, and the HP guy came out, loaded a new hard drive into it, and left.

The BIOS did not support CD functions, so I had to d/l a boot disk image, burn that on a floppy, and boot from that in order to load Windows from the CD.
With a Pentium 100, there's a good chance it still thinks of CD-Rom drives as "those newfangled disc thingys".
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