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IG-88:
Just FYI, I get this when trying to go to that karbos site:
"FORBIDDEN
You tried to access a document for which you don't have privileges."
;D
spystyle:
Thanks, I fixed the link, it's
http://tinyurl.com/ylmcny
quarterback:
So, since any of these ('the beast', 98se and 95b) will run on under 50mb of RAM, what's you're final decision? Are you choosing the 'beast' version of XP over the 9Xs? Are there other pros/cons?
Also, have you done a virus (trojan) check on 'the beast'? I read a post where somebody claimed Kapersky indicated a trojan in the install. False alarm or ?????
--- Quote from: spystyle on November 01, 2006, 04:16:35 pm ---TinyXP "beast" uses only 45.3mb RAM, but what to compare it to? I did some testing with "Windows 98se retail" for comparative data and below are my findings.
---------------------------------
Windows 98se retail for arcade PC
official minmum specs are: less than pentium 1 cpu, 24 mb RAM, 260 MB HDD
1. my testing shows 98se uses 43mb RAM (out of 128) initial **
2. and 23mb RAM (out of 128) after setting disk cache to 8 mb***
3. and 21.5mb after all startup items were disabled****
--- End quote ---
spystyle:
I'm not a computer guru (not MCSE), but I would guess 98 on an older machine, where 64-128 MB RAM is present. And TinyXP on a newer machine, maybe anything above PIII 500 with 256+ MB RAM.
and anything below those specs can run DSL Linux (it is said to turn a 486DX into a workstation and comes with FireFox!) or DOS.
RAM is dirt cheap these days, read your motherboard's manual to discover the maximum amount of RAM it can take and buy that much RAM from pricewatch.com (or maybe ePay)
I was thinking : Maybe 98 can't make much use of RAM above 128 MB, MAME32 running on Win98 probably can make use of the RAM above 128 because it loads the game ROM into the available RAM before loading the rest into the swap file - right?
Cheers,
Craig
spystyle:
Holy cow!
IG-88 just e-mailed me and said he installed TinyXP on a 166mhz Pentium 1 with 64 MB RAM, said it got him online and all drivers were plug and play - that's hilarious! I'm going to dig up a P1 from my basement and try this.
But I've done allot of reading about making old computers into workstations, and DSL Linux was the best solution I've seen so far.
It's unfortunate that Windows CE isn't easy to get and install for this purpose. That would run blistering fast on a 100mhz Pentium with 8 MB RAM and turn $10 laptops into $100 PDAs.
But for MAME : I would recommend DOS on a P1
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