Which frontend to use w/ this pc?

[GameDork]

I have a sucky old Compaq 350 mhz,128 ram w/ Windows 98. i plan on putting it in my JAMMA cabinent with a J-PAC.

My question is, Which version of mame and frontend should I use with this slow of a pc?

I know I won't be able to play MK and other games like that. I am mostly interested in older games anyway.

Since its a JAMMA standard, I need a FE that doesn't need a mouse, etc...

It would be a mame only machine

[SirPeale]

Ditch Windows all together and run DOS with ArcadeOS.

[GameDork]

Ditch Windows all together and run DOS with ArcadeOS.

Sounds good, How in the world do I do it?

I am not very command prompt literate.

I forgot to mention earlier, It has a 3 Gig HD and doesn't recognize the usb ports.

[SirPeale]

Well, first you should learn some DOS basics.

Format the hard drive, install and configure Mame.

Install ArcadeOS in it's own directory

Doing this all in a PC only environment until it's working right

Change ArcadeOS so it uses the arcade monitor and not the PC one (in the cfg file)

Plug the machine into your J-PAC

Play.

Very, *very* abbreviated, but that's the gist.

[GameDork]

Well, first you should learn some DOS basics.

Format the hard drive, install and configure Mame.

I was afraid you would say something like this....

[Minwah]

You could always try Windows with something like MAME v0.36final, to see how it performs (should play the classics and many others OK...).

MAMEWAH has pretty low system requirements (I have run it on a 333 with no problem), and GameLauncher would run...I am not sure how demanding the other cabinet FE's are (?)

[Buddabing]

Ditch Windows all together and run DOS with ArcadeOS.

Amen, brother.  

IMO GameLauncher runs better than ArcadeOS on an arcade monitor which can't do 640x480.

Hopefully his sound card has a DOS driver.

The poster might be better off doing what Minwah said and replacing the Windows 98 shell with Mamewah.

[GameDork]

Ditch Windows all together and run DOS with ArcadeOS.

The poster might be better off doing what Minwah said and replacing the Windows 98 shell with Mamewah.

I may try and do the Mamewah first and see how things go.

[EndTwist]

I'm using an old pc like that for my cab. Mame 0.59 works perfectly at full speed, but for MK, you can try .36 or .40 range too.

Running Windows 98, 32bit FE (VertiWAH, fyi), runs fine.