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