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Sir Auros:

Best Buy had a pretty decent computer on sale this week for $299, but it has Vista Basic. Pentium 4 3.2gig and a gig of RAM, and I picked up a cheap videocard (Radeon X1050) for output to a TV.

However, I was wondering how popular MAME software and related MAME cabinet software works with Vista thus far. I was also curious about whether or not the system I got is going to slow down much with those kinds of stats.

EDIT - I would actually prefer to return that computer and get the one that's $100 less, but it has a Celeron D and 512megs of RAM. Think that one would be ok for my MAME cabinet? I only bought the more expensive one because I was going to use it as my main computer, but I think I'd rather just stick with my reliable XP box.

btp2k2:

Negetive Ghost Rider.

I have not had good luck with Vista and MAME. My neighbor had the brilliant idea to build a cabinet (wonder where he came up with that idea...probably all the saw dust flying around my drive way) and went to Frys and bought a pre built computer....it had Vista Basic on it, I loaded him up with MAME...never did get it to work correctly...ended up reformatting and installing XP.

On a side note, I would say Vista isn't going to be good for much of anything right now. I golf with a guy who spent 15 years working on Microsoft's OS team until about a year ago when he saw something the dopey crap Vista would be doing. He quite after 15 years and now works in their Office department. He said Vista is on all the computers at Microsoft and they have at least 3 crashes a week and he won't touch Vista with a stick. Coming from a dude with that kind of credentials, I would say stay away from it

Sir Auros:

Yeah, that it's an OS in its infancy is why I'm rethinking my plans for making it my primary computer. It would be good for a MAME cabinet if there's a version of MAME that would work and if games would run decently.

JasonA:

Have you booted up your new vista machine?  I don't know much about Vista, but it does have that deal, where you can launch applications in Windows-XP compatibility mode ....  Worth a try, maybe Mame32 would work with that....


BobA:

The best bet is to give Microsoft a year or so to get rid of the worst problems and then another year so that all other software can catch up and become stable.  As it is now XP is a great basis for a MAME machine and if you use Tiny XP you get rid of alot of the overhead that XP had. 


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