I had no idea what the system requirements for AAE were, still in the dark really and I tried doing a "custom build" on the cheap. I wanted to do this under $100 which looks like will be impossible for me. I did get to see AAE in action though and I'm not certain I feel it is worth all this extra work and expense to get glows and trails on a few vector games. I may have pushed the settings too far and things looked a bit "cartoonish" to me but I probably pushed settings too far.
Even though Asteroids Deluxe was only running at half speed, the sounds didn't seem right to me, even compensating for the lost frames, it didn't sound quite right to me and accurate sound in AD is extremely important to me. Accurate sounds in AD are more important than glows and trails for me, so I'm gonna stick with my old G4 running an old OS9 version of mame for now.