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| Humanoid:
I have an old PIII 450 laptop and would like to run mame and possibly some console emulators. Performancewise should I run a windows installation or a linux distro? Which version (of windows or linux distribution)? Also is it worthwhile to even try running SNES or Genesis emulators on such an anemic mahcine? Thanks guys, I have limited experience with low power machines running emulators. |
| whammoed:
In my experience, comparing the same game on the same release of mame between linux and windows I get better performance from linux (gentoo flavor, not that it matters probably). Some may suggest dos for that particular system though? |
| SirPoonga:
How much memeory does the system have? 450 is good enough to emulate snes and genesis. Does it have a CD drive? If so try AdvancedCD to see how linux will work http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-advcd.html |
| Humanoid:
It has 64MB of ram, however advanceCD will not boot for some reason.... |
| SirPoonga:
cd set as 1st boot device in bios? You can also try http://sourceforge.net/projects/knoppixmame |
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