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| MartyNg:
I found a thread about OSes in use for MAME but it hasn't had a response in over 2 years. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=33 What do you guys think would work best for this lowly system? This cabinet will likely be MAME only. I have a PIII System with a gig of RAM that I was going to use, but it keeps freezing up when Win XP starts. 733 MHz Athlon 128 Meg RAM GeForce3 Video Card 2 40-GIG Hard drives |
| arcadepcnut:
definately dos. |
| AtomSmasher:
If win xp is too much for it, then load win 98. It will definately be able to handle win 98. I had a 800mhz machine that ran windows xp and it ran mame fine, I couldn't play all the games, but I could play most of them. You may want to figure out whats causing it to freeze up, although reinstalling windows XP will probably fix your problem. |
| MartyNg:
I don't know if DOS would work since I have a SBLive and GeForce3, but I could give it a whirl. I currently have XP Pro on the machine, and that's surprisingly fast (Windows itself...haven't tried MAME on it yet) It's been a while...could I actually install Win98SE and just not boot into Windows by default? Go right into ArcadeOS perhaps? |
| MartyNg:
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on July 12, 2006, 09:45:09 pm ---If win xp is too much for it, then load win 98. It will definately be able to handle win 98. I had a 800mhz machine that ran windows xp and it ran mame fine, I couldn't play all the games, but I could play most of them. You may want to figure out whats causing it to freeze up, although reinstalling windows XP will probably fix your problem. --- End quote --- Unfortunately, I've run out of patience with my freezing machine. I took every non-required component out, and it still freezes after a fresh install of XP. I've swapped the memory out and played with BIOS settings tilI was blue in the face, but it still freezes. I even tried blasting a big fan into the PC in case it was a heat problem...no dice. Must be something on the motherboard. Too bad...probably would have made a much nicer system than the Athlon, especially with 1 gig of ram! |
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