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need advice on mame version for older PC
Turnarcades:
I've spent many hours and posted many threads on working with older PC's and MAME versions. Your best bet will be anything from the pre-rebuild era (0.106 backwards); this was the big graphics re-write and after this point your mobo/graphics card has to be D3D capable and the system demands went up massively. My personal recommendation is to play it safe with a 0.9x version as some subtle changes were made the closer you get to 0.106 that may also cause performance issues. I personally like 0.100 for a P3 system as it is the perfect compromise between latest version/performance/pre-core changes. In my opinion in terms of supported games, not much following the 0.90 mark is even worth it anyway and risking 'breaking' a few classics as what happened after 0.106 isn't worth it for the addition of a handful of full-speed, average quality games.