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Title: 486 75Mhz
Post by: pcates on February 22, 2005, 12:49:42 am

Is there any way to get Ms Pacman to run properly on a 486 75Mhz machine??? I know it is a long shot, but I want to set up a min ms pac and was hoping to use this comp. Any help is greatly appreciated.... Patrick

Title: Re: 486 75Mhz
Post by: TalkingOctopus on February 22, 2005, 01:24:12 am

Have you tried a really old version of MAME? 

http://www.mame.net/oldmame.html

I remember galaga seemed to play alright on a pentium 90 years ago.

Title: Re: 486 75Mhz
Post by: elvis on February 22, 2005, 02:45:46 am

You want Vantage:

http://www.mameworld.net/pc2jamma/vantage7.html

Title: Re: 486 75Mhz
Post by: youki on February 22, 2005, 05:40:28 am

You want really play via emulation?  A solution could be to not use emulators, i think you can find very good port of this game in Native PC code for DOS. 
I remember i had a very good pacman which worked perfectly on my old PC XT 8088 4,77MHz!  and it becomed unplayed when i used the turbo switch of my PC to speed up to 8 Mhz!

Youki

Title: Re: 486 75Mhz
Post by: elvis on February 22, 2005, 06:06:01 am

Quote from: youki on February 22, 2005, 05:40:28 am

You want really play via emulation?

I'd take emulation over simulation any day. :)

Title: Re: 486 75Mhz
Post by: JoyMonkey on February 22, 2005, 10:04:51 am

Yeah, VAntAGE should be able to play it without any problems.

Title: Re: 486 75Mhz
Post by: pcates on February 22, 2005, 06:06:35 pm

Thanks for the replies, I'll give Vantage a try...
Patrick

Title: Re: 486 75Mhz
Post by: Lilwolf on February 23, 2005, 01:19:11 pm

non-mame emulators are almost always faster.

Hive is also real quick.

There is a REM! (rygar emulator) that might be close... I used it on a 233mhz but it wasn't pushing anything.

MGE (multiple gauntlet emulator) is also great...

Sparcade (for archon and others)

Look at the emulators which where out when that machine wasn't such a dog. 

Title: Re: 486 75Mhz
Post by: dfmaverick on February 24, 2005, 11:30:30 am

Another vote for Vantage.

I have it running on my old 486dx2