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Title: What version of MAME to use with old pc
Post by: gavkiwi on May 21, 2004, 10:52:37 pm

We have a "old' second comp in our house that I'd like to put mame on, its a Pentium P1 166mhz, with 32 megs of ram and Win95. What mame would work on this pc?

Any help would be very much appreciated

cheers  

Gav

Title: Re:What version of MAME to use with old pc
Post by: menace on May 22, 2004, 07:38:03 am

vantage mame works well, as does build .36b12 (i think its that one)  the older the mame version the better for slower machines.  Just check to make sure the games you want to play are included in whatever version you start using.

Title: Re:What version of MAME to use with old pc
Post by: Tiger-Heli on May 22, 2004, 09:32:09 am

Quote from: menace on May 22, 2004, 07:38:03 am

vantage mame works well, as does build .36b12 (i think its that one)  the older the mame version the better for slower machines.  Just check to make sure the games you want to play are included in whatever version you start using.

What menace said, except vantage is a totally different emulator, not a MAME version - but probably better for a Pentium 166.

Title: Re:What version of MAME to use with old pc
Post by: paigeoliver on May 22, 2004, 04:27:18 pm

.36b12 is fine on that proc, when I first received my Gorf cocktail Mame the mobo was incorrectly underclocked to that speed, and everything still ran full speed.