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Tiger-Heli:
The $20 machine is a better deal.

You can run Win98 just fine on a Pentium 200.  You can also play all those games fine with an older version of MAME.

Games with more than 16 colors (Sky Shark, 1942, Top Gunner) will bog down, but are still playable on it with high frameskip.
TOK:
Those are both better than the machine I had when I discovered MAME back around version .37. That was one of the benchmark versions for a long time, and ran all the games you mention fine back then on my Pentium 133.

You can get by with very meager hardware for the Golden Age stuff.
rovingmind:
i have a 350mhz that i run golden age games on just because i've had it forever, but i wouldn't go any lower than 500mhz now unless it was free. 
vidmouse:
Seems like we keep having this discussion on older machines and MAME performance.  While we probably won't ever get a full table of comparisons (CPU speed x Memory x OS x MAME version x Frameskip x etc.) -- hey, wouldn't that be a great reference? --

Guess the best we can do is post our own personal so-and-so's.
For example:

AMD K6-2 333, 256MB RAM, Win98, 16MB vid ram, run MAME v0.57 at best
PII 300, 512 RAM, Win98, 32MB vid ram, runs MAME v0.69 at best

and I used to have an old 486-66 64MB RAM, 12MB vid ram running MAME v.37b6 I think.
(hey at that time that was latest version)

(and note, "at best" was measured without proper benchmarking
and possibly after several beers)
shorthair:
You're forwarded to, and appointed to write, the wiki on it. Have at it.
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