Choosing a MAME Version

[Hornpipe2]

Need help picking a MAME version for your machine?  Here are two resources to help guide your choice of version for your "performance" needs.

* Aaron Giles benchmarks MAME (0.37b15 to 0.113) running pacman: http://aarongiles.com/?m=200704
* MAME Benchmarks user-contributed data: http://benchmark.mameworld.info/

Based on Aaron's research (using one machine running one game with one trial), it seems any of these are the "last versions" before a speed penalty.  Balance this against your hardware and compatibility needs, and see what happens.  It's likely your results will be different.
0.37b16
0.60
0.62
0.92u2000
0.106
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I leave the discussion of "DOS vs Linux vs TinyXP vs ..." as an exercise to the reader.