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Title: what to do with a old machine............
Post by: havic626 on January 29, 2008, 08:55:25 pm: I have a very very old pc lying around............its a 333mhz amd cpu with 64 megs of ram...... i would like to use it for strictly emulation but don't know what will run or if older emu's will run on it..............any ideas or help would be much appreciated.
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Post by: rovingmind on January 29, 2008, 08:57:18 pm: youd be surprised at how many of the older 4-way stick games will run, also atari emulators
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Post by: vertygo on January 29, 2008, 09:34:11 pm: keeps doors open.. helps you reach the top shelf.. throw it at burglars..

:cheers:
Title: Re: what to do with a old machine............
Post by: Kangum on January 29, 2008, 09:53:01 pm: i have an old p2 300 mhz slot 1 computer tht ran windows 98 quit happily. it was set up in our livingroom for email and web browsing. it did the job easily and was even speedy.

its retired now so i cant check but a nes emulator should run on it and maybe even a snes emulator. i know they both run smooth at 600 mhz you could try 300.
Title: Re: what to do with a old machine............
Post by: protokatie on January 29, 2008, 11:12:33 pm: Quote
I have a very very old pc lying around............its a 333mhz amd cpu with 64 megs of ram...... i would like to use it for strictly emulation but don't know what will run or if older emu's will run on it..............any ideas or help would be much appreciated.

Dont know about what you can run as far as MAME, but I had (and still have) an Amiga 1200 28 MHZ with 10 megs of ram that would run SNES games just fine, also Atari emulation (Stella) and NES. So,a 333Mhz System should be able to run plenty of stuff (Maybe not NEOGEO or 3DO, but anything before it). Hell, I ran Project 64 on my mother's old 400 Mhz machine back in the day (With textures turned off) just to give you and idea of how far you could go.
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Post by: ark_ader on January 30, 2008, 02:46:22 am: I have an old 486 laptop that plays Asteroids very well, as will some others. Wasn't THAT long ago when we had P60-75s and it was fun to see Ghosts & Goblins run without frameskip......

With your spec you can run Daphne, Mame, Snes etc...

That AMD isn't old.

A 8088 is .. :laugh2:
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Post by: Grauwulf on January 30, 2008, 06:52:08 pm: Man, I remember when a 386/16 was cutting edge. And it wasn't *that* long ago.
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Post by: Havok on January 30, 2008, 10:18:09 pm: Just avoid newer versions of Windows and run an older version of Mame - it will work great! Or, go the Linux route - that always requires less horsepower...
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Post by: lanman31337 on January 31, 2008, 08:27:34 am: Or run it as a dosbox and you can run old pc games, mame, atari, etc... Minimal load times too!
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Post by: shardian on January 31, 2008, 10:43:30 am: TinyXP can be loaded on a machine that old believe it or not. I just loaded it last night onto an IBM with a P333mhz with 160mb RAM. Worked great.
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Post by: vidmouse on January 31, 2008, 12:05:30 pm: A PII 300 was what I started building my cab with before someone donated
a P4. I was able to get semi-decent, playable results with Mame v 0.53.
Also played some older Visual Pinball tables, SNES, Genz, VisualBoy (not Advance
just the GB/GBC games), and the Atari stuff already mentioned. It even
hooked well to my dancepad for Stepmania, believe it or not.