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Is a 486 (100mhz) with 32mb of RAM enough for VectorMame?

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Fozzy The Bear:


--- Quote from: missioncontrol on February 02, 2006, 12:00:47 pm ---hey Fozzy The Bear some people here see mame as a way to give a new life to an old PC.

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I agree with you completely.... But a 486 isn't going to run what he wants to run and as I said he doesn't stand a chance of running much at all on a 100Mhz 486. Certainly not the ZVG stuff driving a vector cabinet.

Yes he could run an earlier version of mame and run some of the early 80's Raster games... If he was into space invaders, pacman and defender type stuff then it'd handle that reasonably.  But he wants to run vector games which are processor intensive at the best of times.

P.S. Chill out!! try not to be so over sensitive.  Have a nice cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)


Matthew Fisher:


--- Quote from: JoyMonkey on February 02, 2006, 11:55:10 am ---Well I stand corrected! Nice find.

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I reread my last post and boy, do I sound like a know-it-all jerk!  That was not my intention at all.  I apologize for any offense, JoyMonkey.  I just lucked onto this little tidbit in my (ongoing) effort to squeeze more performance out of my computer.  

shawnzilla:

Gosh, I didn't mean to start an argument!   :angel:

I do already have a PII 200mhz system that I have been using as a testbed coupled with a Vectrex as a monitor. Star Wars does run slow on it, but I that I thought it was more due to the Vectrex...guess I was wrong!

I just bought a WG 6100, so my vector plans are ramping up a bit. My main concern about getting a faster system (in the neighborhood of 1ghz or so) is that I'm never going to be able to get dos to work with a pci soundcard. (it'd be sweet if there were a Windoze version of VectorMame, so that this would cease to be an issue for us vector freaks).



shawnzilla:

BTW Matt, you are the one who inspired me to build a vector machine. My wife will never forgive you for that.... ;)

missioncontrol:


--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on February 02, 2006, 12:11:03 pm ---
P.S. Chill out!! try not to be so over sensitive.  Have a nice cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit.

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hehe..... me? sensitive? guess you may want to do a little homework there before you label people....

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