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Diet_Pepsi:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 30, 2012, 07:11:52 pm ---The PC I am using in my cabinet is around 7-8 years old. The vast majority of what most people want to emulate can run off the average PC one would pluck out of the trash.

The vast majority of games people want to emulate were already emulated full speed back when a 450 mhz computer was top of the line.

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+1 -- One option that has worked for me was to go down to my IT department and poke around -- in my company its a graveyard and my IT guys are happy to give 4-5yr old PCs away to employees for home use.

404:
As many have said here, you do not need a high powered system to play most mame games. There are those few such as 3d games which require better specs. Those games however, tend to still suffer from poor emulation with graphics and sound glitches.

As someone who has dealt with Shuttle branded PC's in my years I would like to give you a piece of advice. Avoid shuttle at all costs. Their motherboards tend to be plagued with problems. Simply put, their boards are just not reliable enough.

kahlid74:
Here is what I use for my MAME PC's now.  Affordable and not too large.

wizkid32:
If you want something really tiny (and cheap too!) you could look at a Raspberry Pi.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=117319.msg1255884#msg1255884

Not sure if it's powerful enough for your project, though I'm pretty sure there is a Linux port of MAME.

Mysterioii:
As of last week the raspberry pi's weren't even shipping yet, and there was some suggestion that they wouldn't be for a while.  There was a guy who I believe had MAME running on a virtual machine emulating a raspberry pi but I don't think the hardware is in their hands yet.

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