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| bigdog1977:
Would make a fantastic paper weight! ;D |
| KeithD:
I run MAME .90 on a PII-700 with 384MB of RAM, Win98SE, and MaLa for a Front end. It runs all the old school classics quite nice and some of the newer stuff OK. This was an upgrade from the old AMD K6-2 500 at 192MB with 98 SE and arcadeos. The old one ran MAME .36b16 or some such. The only reason I upgraded was because the machine was free, and the ancient SCSI/Soundblaster ISA card that ran the CD drive died. Try it out, and just keep stepping the mame version down until you find one that does what you want.; It's the first half of the fun of all of this. :) KeithD |
| pmc:
--- Quote from: evilfuzzle on September 27, 2008, 04:57:07 am ---i meant that old computers are sucky for anything than word processing and they are really had to use and get working, they just aren't compatible with anything. --- End quote --- I completely disagree. These aren't WANG-branded 286 boxes. The PI class ATX machines are simple, very standards based, and cheap and easy to tinker with. You can cheaply load them up with storage and memory and you have several operating systems to choose from. The only real problem is getting enough speed out of the CPU for the kind of real-time gaming that we'd like to do with them. But you can easily replace the CPU with the fastest available and then overclock it to the max. Those old machines have life left in them. But it is true that you have to be willing to tinker and learn. And to some, that's certainly not worth the time. But you can easily upgrade to a P2, P3, or P4 as soon as one appears on the curb somewhere. --- Quote from: polaris on September 27, 2008, 09:53:47 am ---any ideas as to if i can avoid the keyboard hack, im kinda jumping very much in to the deep end here. --- End quote --- Yes. Use a keyboard encoder with a PS/2 interface. I think the IPAC still comes that way. You can still use it with a modern PC if and when you upgrade. -pmc |
| Benevolance:
I'm using a couple 486 servers at home. Along with a nice 2" x 6" board, they make a very nice shelf. |
| AwesomeAlbert:
sounds like a good candidate for spystyle's dos boot cd http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=58809.0 |
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