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| bsoder52:
So after a couple years I've decided to redo much of my MAME cabinet, starting with a larger hard-drive and a multi-emulator front-end (chosen HyperSpin). My question is around the OS for the HD. I have a legit copy of Windows95, will that work to run Hyperspin and Mame and all the emulators? I know its an older version, but this is all the PC will be used for so I don't need a new sexy OS unless these pieces of software require it. Any words of advice are appreciated! Bsoder52 |
| Ginsu Victim:
You should use XP. |
| HaRuMaN:
--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on September 30, 2009, 10:48:48 am ---You should use XP. --- End quote --- Before listening to this advice, what are your PC specs? XP may be a bad choice depending on your hardware. Depending on the age, you may want to consider Win 98SE. |
| severdhed:
windows 95 blows. post the specs of your PC. i'd go with xp if possible, but on older hardware, win98se is probably a better choice |
| Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote from: HarumaN on September 30, 2009, 10:52:34 am --- --- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on September 30, 2009, 10:48:48 am ---You should use XP. --- End quote --- Before listening to this advice, what are your PC specs? XP may be a bad choice depending on your hardware. Depending on the age, you may want to consider Win 98SE. --- End quote --- I used XP on a 700 mhz with 256 MB of RAM. Once you kill all the processes you don't need, it's fine for a MAME cab, even on an older machine. I *did* consider saying Win98SE, but thought XP would do fine for MAME. I could be wrong, though. |
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