MAME on PC whats the lowest mgz and ram ..

[janey]

whats the lowest I  can go with a PC   speed  and Memory.. for mame to work...

I have a Pent 3 with  450Mgz  and 256 Ram, seems like its too slow for some games to work...

[TOK]

When I first found MAME around version .37, I had a Pentium 133.

The key to using an old machine is finding an old version. I think .37 and .65 are still kind of considered "reference" versions, the oldies that people still like to use. I'd try .65 first with your spec machine, and if there is a game you just have to have, move forward from there.

[pincky]

That should work. (i don't think some of the newer games won't run fast)

Wow you have a 1st gen pIII (450mhz noted)

I would max the ram out if possible (can be cheeply done via ebay)

7800 rpm hard drive would work anything 40gb and above

[janey]

thank you...

[janey]

Can someone send me  mame  . 37 and .65

 to

jan6152@ptd.net


thnaks again....


 

[emb]

Can someone send me  mame  . 37 and .65

 to

jan6152@ptd.net


thnaks again....


 

Actually, you can download those right from mames website:

http://mamedev.org/oldrel.html

Hope that helps

[janey]

ahhh Yes .. Ok Great thanks..

xx

[MaximRecoil]

It is v.55 that is usually used as a reference point, rather than v.65. And there were a ton of v.37 releases. I can't remember which one was the famous one—b2 maybe? 

[Turnarcades]

MAME does not need high spec unil you get past versions 0.97 and 0.106 due to big sound and graphics engine changes.

Anything prior to this should run sweet on P3's. I run 0.78 on anything between 650Mhz- 1Ghz with little performance impact on most games, bar Hard-drive games of course.

[janey]

i forgot to mention that i'm running xp on it. 


Itried  the  .65  but i kept getting a quick Black screen and it would disappear..

[janey]

also which one am i suppose to dnld ?/ the 

Source  OR    Binary (Windows)     

whats the difffrence betwween  them ??

[MaximRecoil]

i forgot to mention that i'm running xp on it. 


Itried  the  .65  but i kept getting a quick Black screen and it would disappear..

You don't run the standard version of MAME by double-clicking the MAME.EXE file. It is a command-line application. You can run it by opening CMD.EXE (or COMMAND.COM) and navigating to the directory that MAME.EXE is in, and as an example, if you wanted to play Asteroids, you would put the Asteroids ROM file (ASTEROID.ZIP) in the "ROMS" folder and type - MAME.EXE ASTEROID.ZIP and press enter.

There are various frontends for MAME which give you a GUI (graphical user interface) to make things more convenient. There is also a variant of MAME with an integrated GUI, formerly known as MAME32, but now known as MAMEUI. I don't know where to find older versions of those though.

also which one am i suppose to dnld ?/ the 

Source  OR    Binary (Windows)     

whats the difffrence betwween  them ??

You are supposed to download the binary. The source is for compiling your own build.

[janey]

ohhh  i see ... ok gonna try it now..




thanks


ps can you tell me which frontend would work best /

[MaximRecoil]

ps can you tell me which frontend would work best /

I don't know. I just use MAME32/MAMEUI. Try here - http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Front-Ends

You can also try this—I have an old version of MAME32 that I've used for years (v.61) that I can host long enough for you to download it - http://maxim.skyphix.com/mame32v61b.zip

[janey]

got it will try..
 thanks again

and all
everyone here ..

[eastbayarb]

what kind of PC/MAME build is good to run full speed/sound Neo Geo games and midway games like mortal kombat 1/2/3/ultimate, nba jam ?

[pincky]

i forgot to mention that i'm running xp on it. 


Itried  the  .65  but i kept getting a quick Black screen and it would disappear..

Your running xp on a PIII 450Mhz with 256mb ram

you should be running 2000 pro

how does it take xp to load?
how long did it take to install!?
on a machine that old 2kpro works the best

[severdhed]

what kind of PC/MAME build is good to run full speed/sound Neo Geo games and midway games like mortal kombat 1/2/3/ultimate, nba jam ?

I'm running an Athlon XP 2500+ with 768MB of ram, windows XP pro and mame .116. I only had 512mb of ram in it and it struggled a bit with MK3/ UMK3.  once i found a spare 256mb dimm lying around and installed it they seem to run just fine now.  i did notice a performance hit when i installed that version of mame, but it fixed the sound problem with MK2, so it was worth it.

[gonzo90017]

You should be using 37b16 since that is the fastest version according to some tests made by Aaron Giles


I use it on a 400mhz Celeron and most games run full speed without frameskip. For NeoGeo and Capcom use Nebula, it can be run from the command line. Only problem is that it requires Shift+Escape to exit. It can be done with joytokey or xpadder if you're using a gamepad or a keyboard encoder using the shift keys function. But for NeoGeo I personally prefer Winkawaks since it has the ability to load decrypted roms which cuts the load time significantly on older pc's. Problem with the emu is that it needs a wrapper to load from a frontend and it requires Enter, Alt+F4 to exit which I don't think can be done with shifted keys, but is possible with xpadder or joytokey.

[ark_ader]

Lowest spec running that I know is a 486 DX100 with 16MB and running .34

I have run Mame on a 468 SX 25 8mb with mixed results using .24  and a old 486 DLC (which was a 386 pin variant) which performed fine on the older classics with skip.

I have also tried running Mame on a Compaq 386 /33 8mb with .23 and some of the classics ran on that too.

I also had a Elonex 386/16 but that was too slow for any distribution, but managed to get  Zonn Moore's CinEmu working with an old soundblaster card.

Can we lower the bar any further?  286?  8088-16?  6502?  6510?   

[u_rebelscum]

You should be using 37b16 since that is the fastest version according to some tests made by Aaron Giles

Note that that chart is just one game with one setting on one computer.  I've tried other games on different computers and different settings, and have gotten different looking charts.  Many were pretty close, but some were way off in changes between versions.

It's a good start though.  If you want specific games on a specific computer (ie, yours), you might want to test different versions.  The hardest part is matching the settings on the different versions as the way an option is set changes, as well as the options themselves.

[NoOne=NBA=]

Most of the classics run at full framerate on my 100Mhz Powerbook with MacMAME .30 and .33 on it.
My main cab is running a 300Mhz G3, with MacMAME .60 on it.
I've run it on a 33 Mhz Quadra, using v.28.