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heres some benchmarks for a REALLY low end computer (",)

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danny_galaga:

well, you may have gathered ive been experimenting with an old laptop. the laptop was free so it was definitely worth fidding with. and now i know its powerful enough im working a project around it. super low budget naturally as befits the laptop (",)

ok, so the laptop is a gateway2000 solo. it is 90mhz  :o about ten years old and runs win95. last night i tested out a few old school games to see what it could do. i deliberately picked only a few old games as im not patient enough to see what would happen if i tried to run street fighter or something  ;D

i used mame32 v36 11:

invaders- can go to 170% unthrottled. perfect play

pong (!) - about 90% and 9/60 fps. probably slow because its not an emulation as such

pacman- 100%. plays well

berserk- up to about 120% unthrottled, this drops to 40% when going to next level. with auto on its not too bad since it just drops a lot of frames. plays well.

astro invaders- can go to 170% unthrottled. firing sounds are dodgy, unthrottled or not.

asteroids- about 95% at 20/60 fps. quite playable. no sound. this version of mame is the last before alpha blending and as such should let vector games run faster. i dont even know what alpha blending is, just quoting what i read!

1942- approx 75% with 9/60 fps. not very playable and sound is a bit scratchy and echo-ey.

so there you go! anthing faster and you are definitely set for the old school stuff!

brophog:
You'd be amazed sometimes what would run on those old computers. In fact, most things seem to run out of ram first (on stock setups) before processing power limits it.

Howard_Casto:
My gorf cab (with the burnt out pcbs) was initially only gonna play gorf so I just threw a "throw away" 200 mhz pc with integrated sound and video in it.  As long as I'm just running dos, everything does fine.  I can play anything prior to 1989 on it.  I think the fact that I'm running mame in -arcade monitor mode helps a lot though.  No hardware stretching means faster performance. 

danny_galaga:


hehe. whod a thunk a 200mhz pc would be overkill! im very challenged in the OS and software field but i do enjoy learning things (where i can actually retain anything  ;))

Howard_Casto:
Well you've got to remember, I'm also using an old version of mame on it.  The newer the version, the higher the resource requirements. 

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