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IG-88:
I have several old P1's - P3's sitting around that I want to put to some good use. I've been doing a bunch of searching here on the site and google but I'm not finding what I'm looking for.
I was going to run older versions of mame32 like v.36 or v.55 (like paigeoliver likes) using win98 or 98se stripped down with just a few roms each. The systems range from 166mhz too 400mhz (I think) with 32mb to 128mb ram. All have real basic sound/vid cards.
What I wanted to know is what F/E's would work with these (I know, mame32 is gui, I'm just comfortable with it) Or any other advice people might have for me. Other than scrapping them ;) that is.
divemaster127:
the 400 you might be able to do something, maybe, but the old 166 will is just to old...
thanks
JoyMonkey:
The 400 could probably cope with Windows98se, Mame 0.55 and GameLauncher. Anything lower than that and I'd stick with DOS, Mame 0.36b16 and GameLauncher, or DOS, Vantage and GameLauncher for a vertical setup.
youki:
AtomicFe should work under windows 98 from a 200Mhz machine with 64Meg of Ram. (i think it could work with 32Meg only , in fact it depend of the skin you use).
Of course, you will have to use non-animated skins and non alpha-blended one on very low configuration. But it should work. (the default skin won't work i think)
My frontEnd is very scalable.
If you want try and if you have problem don't hesitate to contact me.
IG-88:
--- Quote from: JoyMonkey on January 17, 2006, 06:21:36 pm ---The 400 could probably cope with Windows98se, Mame 0.55 and GameLauncher. Anything lower than that and I'd stick with DOS, Mame 0.36b16 and GameLauncher, or DOS, Vantage and GameLauncher for a vertical setup.
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Hey JoyMonkey! I was hopin' you would answer. Actually I have win98 running on all the machines I just haven't put a set of emulators/and games on them yet. I would love to go the DOS/Mame36/GameLauncher route, but I guess I'm a little intimated by the whole thing. I am VERY command line "illiterate". I do know how to read however so I guess I could learn how to do it. How would you recommend getting started with that?
Youkki, thanks for responding. I was actually considering your FE just for the outstanding support you provide, I was just worried I wouldn't have enough "horsepower" to run it. A few questions: You mentioned the default skin wouldn't work, what should I use instead? Also what size is your is the FE (mb)? Not that it should matter all that much. And when you say scalable do you mean that it can easily be scaled down to run a lower end machine like I'm talking about?
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