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| Jest:
Hi guys. I have a friend with a bunch of old laptops that I can have. When thinking about what to do I thought I might be able to use it as a mame computer. I took one home but haven't got a power adapter yet. Would it be able to run MAME? It is an old IBM ThinkPad; a Pentium II, 96MB of RAM, and 4GB Hard drive. Win 98 is on it now, but I'd rather put a Linux distro on it for faster booting. There is no USB but there is a serial port. Would it be possible to set it up as a MAME cabinet? |
| severdhed:
you could probably run an older version of mame on there, and be ok playing the classics. i wouldn't expect to be able to play MK3 or anything like that. is there a PS2 keybaord port on it? i know alot of older laptops had them..if not, finding a suitable control interface could be challenging. |
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