2.39GHZ 256 RAM Windows XP PC - What will it run?

[slapaham]

I know these posts are annoying and I apologise but I hit gold and got the PC mentioned in the title for free! What version of MAME would run well on this? It's a pretty powerful PC with that spec so would I be too adventurous to say that it may run the latest version of MAME? Feedback please!

[HaRuMaN]

Hmm...  considering your significant lack of RAM, I would recommend an early version, .6x to .7x maybe?  Hard to say.

[Blanka]

Yeah, right, or buy 1Gb for 5$. Ram costs ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- nowadays.

[youki]

In my cabinet  that has  a Athlon 2Ghz and 256 Mega of ram on XP , i use mame 0.90 . Just because i don't need more recent version for game i play. 

i think it really depends on what kind of game your are targetting to play.

[Hoopz]

.94 runs well if you want Golden Tee.  I had a P3 1.8 (?) Ghz with 256 megs and found most games ran fine. 

[slapaham]

Thanks for the feedback guys!

I kind of agree with the point about getting a version to match the types of games you enjoy playing. I have loaded v0.56 on there at the moment and I have admit I'd be more than happy with that. I will probably upgrade though as I'd like to get rid of the start screens and look into hi score files...

This computer runs so much better than the crappy old machine in my cab at the moment!

[blkdog7]

Thanks for the feedback guys!

I kind of agree with the point about getting a version to match the types of games you enjoy playing. I have loaded v0.56 on there at the moment and I have admit I'd be more than happy with that. I will probably upgrade though as I'd like to get rid of the start screens and look into hi score files...

This computer runs so much better than the crappy old machine in my cab at the moment!

How do you get rid of the start/nag screens on the games. I searched high and low and can't figure it out!

[slapaham]

Well, on my 0.84 - you create an ini file using the 'mame -cc' command in DOS... then open the newly created ini file in notepad and change the 0's next to Disable_Disclaimer (or something like that) and that removes them!

[blkdog7]

Ok, sweet. I'll give that a shot. Where does it save the ini file? What's the name?

[boomstick]

mame.ini, located in in the same dir as your mame.exe file
hope this helps

[daywane]

if  you use Mame 32 . You will need to make a folder called INI