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Should I give Groovymame a try?

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Hogie1418:
Just got "smart" and looked up the new arcadevga 3000 and I see that it is red. Mine is green or black (can't remember which) so I am assuming I have the one that you speak of.

kourampies:
You should definetely use GroovyMAME and CRT EMU driver, the result is amazing.

The pentium 4 proccessor in your setup is a little weak though, for any modern build of mame. Still I dont think you ll have any problem with most games, till the mid 90s.

krick:
Your Dell computer has an AGP graphics slot, so either have the original ArcadeVGA 7000 AGP, or the ArcadeVGA 9250 AGP.

I don't know for sure if the 7000 model with work with GroovyMAME, but I assume the answer is yes.

As others mentioned, the main problem for you is probably going to be the older CPU.  The age of the game in MAME really doesn't matter when it comes to emulation, older games like Asteroids and Donkey Kong use tons of CPU cycles because they now use discrete simulation of the analog sound circuits instead of samples like older versions of MAME.  As games get more accurate emulation in newer versions of MAME, they tend to use more CPU as well, like Mortal Kombat, for example.

Also note that you're probably running an older version of MAME so many of your ROMs will need to be updated before they'll work with newer versions of MAME.

I guess you could always try it and go back to your old setup if you weren't happy with the speed.

kourampies:
Perhaps its my idea, but I remember Mortal Kombat etc not running full speed on a 2800+ Sempron many years before, and nowadays im running at full speed even with a Celeron 2.0ghz, thats way weaker than the sempron. Its near the specs of OPs pc.

A little offtopic, nowadays you can find so many good used Athlon XP series CPUs and motherboards for them, that support more recent hardware, like SATA, PCI express and DDR2, that they seem like a good option. Some motherboards even have integrated ATI graphics, that work perfectly with CRT EMU driver and GroovyMAME.

krick:

--- Quote from: kourampies on July 11, 2012, 05:00:21 pm ---Perhaps its my idea, but I remember Mortal Kombat etc not running full speed on a 2800+ Sempron many years before, and nowadays im running at full speed even with a Celeron 2.0ghz, thats way weaker than the sempron. Its near the specs of OPs pc.

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Mame runs up to 30% faster in some games when running on Intel CPUs so that's definitely something to consider when buying hardware for a dedicated MAME cabinet.

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