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PrizLucky:
my experience with my PII 450 shows that the older the versions of Mame load up much more quickly...!

I started out running v.92 (because that was the latest version at the time) and I noticed similiar slow starting .. I realized that i didn't really need to run that version for any particular reason.. so I backed up and started running v.69 and noticed much better "startup" times.. (i've since moved up to v.72 for some minor game issues)..

anywayz.. I guess that was a long way of saying, "use and older version of mame" .. I think you'll like the results.

spriggy:
I can only say that my old cabinet I gave to my brother runs an PIII-450mhz(overclocked to just over 500mhz) with 128mb of ram & Voodoo 3, with minimal installed Win98se, kicks ass on the classics and higher (that is running under mame 0.71).

RayB:

--- Quote from: DemonBrew on April 22, 2005, 11:55:45 am ---I boot into Win98, load MAMEWAH from startup folder, MAMEWAH launches a DOS Window / command line of MAME.

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OK, so Windows has to load up everything it needs. That's one part of the problem. Did you do a fresh, minimal install? Are you virus-free?


--- Quote ---Re: Pentium Pro, I thought P Pro was like MMX. It was an add-on to the early Pentiums as an additional co-processor, but was pretty much assumed from PII on up. Maybe I'm wrong? So under that logic, a PIII would by default have the functionality of Pro, MMX, math co-processor, etc.

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I might be wrong, but I understood P-Pro to be a special variant of Pentium, and that was it. No longer made. You might be right, but I never saw it marketed as a feature, only as its own more expensive CPU.


--- Quote --- I think it's only a 4mb or 8mb now that I think about it.

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That's plenty for old 2D games. Try an older version of MAME.

PrizLucky:

--- Quote from: RayB on April 22, 2005, 01:12:22 pm ---
--- Quote ---Re: Pentium Pro, I thought P Pro was like MMX. It was an add-on to the early Pentiums as an additional co-processor, but was pretty much assumed from PII on up. Maybe I'm wrong? So under that logic, a PIII would by default have the functionality of Pro, MMX, math co-processor, etc.

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I might be wrong, but I understood P-Pro to be a special variant of Pentium, and that was it. No longer made. You might be right, but I never saw it marketed as a feature, only as its own more expensive CPU.


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The Pentium Pro's core was rolled into the Pentium II's core.. So really any Pentium II or III would/should benefit from code "optimized" for the Pentium Pro...

It's the original Pentiums that won't work (well) with the Pentium Pro stuff...

DemonBrew:

--- Quote from: RayB on April 22, 2005, 01:12:22 pm ---OK, so Windows has to load up everything it needs. That's one part of the problem. Did you do a fresh, minimal install? Are you virus-free?

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Yep, fresh install. No virus problem, nothing else installed (Office, etc, etc). Turned off unnecessary junk.

I'll have to try MAME .71 it looks like.

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