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How is Vista for a MAME cabinet?

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Organic Jerk:
Well the title of the thread is asking about it for a mame cabinet...

I would imagine that with a cabinet OS, you would want the smallest possible resource footprint (combined with ease of use, and good overall compatibility) so most of it all would go towards the games.  Vista certainly doesn't provide you with the smallest possible footprint.

Santoro:
I may have been off topic a bit, I was really reponding to "Vista is turning out to be the Windows ME of this decade" sentiment.

MajorHavoc:
Sorry, but so far, I haven't found a single good use for Vista.  Sadly, the laptop which I purchased at a very attractive price came infected wiith Vista.  My first thought was to upgrade to XP or Win2000 but my son who purchased the same computer tried this only to find no drivers available for the sound card.  Learning from the ill fortunes of others,
I think I'll wait a bit before exorcising my computer of Vista.  I can't imagine it will be long before some enterprising Vista victims develop drivers to allow Vista hardware to interface with a more functional operating system. 

Mike

XtraSmiley:
I've been using Vista for a few months and it seems to run fine.  No major BSODs yet.  It is a system hog, but really, modern computers can handle it.  Game wise (PC) it does seem to kill them, but for a MAME cab I would say it is fine.

XP is a great choice for all the listed reasons and I may use it when finishing up my MAME only cab next month, but Vista has this font resizing option that XP doesn't have that may make reading text on an arcade monitor easier to do.  The cab will be a MAME cab, but I could surf the web and do a few small things on it, so it is a consideration.

I will test further next month and post.  I want to use the cab to play some older PC games like Worms for example and if they do not run on Vista, that will be a deal breaker as well.

Santoro:

--- Quote from: MajorHavoc on June 27, 2007, 05:04:26 pm ---Sorry, but so far, I haven't found a single good use for Vista.  Sadly, the laptop which I purchased at a very attractive price came infected wiith Vista.  My first thought was to upgrade to XP or Win2000 but my son who purchased the same computer tried this only to find no drivers available for the sound card.  Learning from the ill fortunes of others,
I think I'll wait a bit before exorcising my computer of Vista.  I can't imagine it will be long before some enterprising Vista victims develop drivers to allow Vista hardware to interface with a more functional operating system.
--- End quote ---

Whatever works for you.  But it sure sounds like you are letting an isolated incident form your entire worldview of Vista.  XP had similar growing pains at the start too.  No one is calling it a virus today.    :dunno

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