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Which purchase is smarter! Lets duke it out!
chuggy:
First of all i am poor! LOL. I recently bought a Dr. Mario machine, 29.99 wasnt working, but it is now. I have a crappy pI 133 mhz cpu, all i want to run is NES games. I've bought a keyboard encoder(keywiz max). Heres the thing. I have enough money to buy either a 19" monitor to hook to my crappy computer. Or enough to get a computer that would be capable of handling MAME so i can hook that up to the arcade monitor. Which should i do? PLEASE HELP ME!
BobA:
No contest. Buy a computer to use with your existing arcade monitor and run MAME and whatever other emulators you want. More computer power will always help.
Just my opinion.
BobA
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: chuggy on May 02, 2003, 02:13:49 pm ---First of all i am poor! LOL. I recently bought a Dr. Mario machine, 29.99 wasnt working, but it is now. I have a ---smurfy--- pI 133 mhz cpu, all i want to run is NES games. I've bought a keyboard encoder(keywiz max). Heres the thing. I have enough money to buy either a 19" monitor to hook to my ---smurfy--- computer. Or enough to get a computer that would be capable of handling MAME so i can hook that up to the arcade monitor. Which should i do? PLEASE HELP ME!
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Ok, I assume the working Dr. Mario has a monitor in it now, right. Why don't you get a faster machine and an arcade video card that will hook into the monitor. Or am I missing something.
FWIW, I have a 17" PC monitor and a Pentium 200 MMX. The 17" is fine, but the P200 needs to be upgraded ASAP. If that helps you any.
chuggy:
Im reassured now! I sorta realized that was a dumb question after i posted. LOL.
Superdude:
I disagree. If you are poor then you wont be able to afford:
1) Arcade Card - 100 bucks
2) JPAC - 60 bucks
3) New computer that supports AGP - 200 bucks
Thats 360 right there
A new 19inch should go for under 150 bucks.
Do the math.