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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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