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| EmuHead:
A little bit of advice if your downgrading from XP to 98 - make sure all your drivers are 98 compatable. A hellacious experience could have gone so smoothly. Dear oh dear...... |
| Dexter:
Just finished a cab with a 1ghz athlon in it, 64mb Ati radeon 9000 card, 256 MB of ram running mame .63 and arcadeos. Almost all games run fine (including metal slug 1,2,3,x) under DOS and win98se. Hope this helps |
| Lilwolf:
My take. Use whatevers free! You can get mame working on a 450 with a ton of games running (all the classics)... BUT... if you are going to BUY a computer... You want to buy something thats about 1 - 1.5 years old... Still being mass produced but not the 'latest' Go with AMD for the price / performance improvements... And ignore the 64bit systems if mame is your primary goal... they are great but not worth the extra cash. Also, video cards don't matter... But a AGP slot is good for ArcadeVGA card later if that is a goal (long / short). Next.. Pick your budget and get the fastest processor you can get. AMD XP2000 + motherboard for $79 bucks... but if you have an extra 40 bucks laying around your up to a XP2700... You might get another 2% games running... but if you like any of the new ones... you might find... A 2 ghz handles almost all games... a 3.4 handles the Zinc games (but Zinc 1.0 is out... and runs on a 2ghz...) So you wont get much out of your extra cash... |
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