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900 mhz Celeron versus 800 mhz Pentium III - which one should I choose?

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ringram:
I'm using a 350mhz celeron overclocked to 450mhz, 192Mb of ram and a 10gb hard drive. I am using DOS 7 (win 98 bootdisk) and Mame .81. I have ArcadeOS loaded as a front end. I play all of the classics with no frame skip. It's fast. I don't have to worry about shut down (just turn the power off). No booting into windows. Turn the power on, and a couple of seconds later, you're in the front end. It's (almost) kid proof.

Unless you really want the more recent games to work on the machine, don't get get all caught up in processor specs, etc. What you have will be fine. Upgrade later when you can source out a better (used/free) machine.

pressthebutton:
Hi ringram,

Thank you for posting your system specs.
I'm mainly interested in playing the "classic" arcade games, so knowing that my system will most likely handle the job is great news!
Didn't you had trouble installing the drivers for your soundcard or network card?
Some people defend that it's better to use tiny xp as for driver availability.
Not really sure what to choose. Need something that is not to hard to setup.

I'm just about to finish the vga to scart/rgb cable. Are you by any chance using a cable like this? I'm using a schematic taken from this site:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/callum.henderson/basement_boomera_000009.htm

Having a bit of trouble understanding the reason why I must solder the 12v power supply lead to scart pin number 8   ???


P.M.

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: TheManuel on January 03, 2008, 12:31:58 pm ---Anything else, please show data.
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Disabling sound in mame can help as well (but isn't much fun), as can running at a lower resolution (640x as opposed to 1024x).  I don't have data, though.

And I'm mainly just being difficult.

TheManuel:
You're absolutely right about the resolution, I forgot to mention that.  I've seen data  ;D
About the sound, I would not even consider it.

pressthebutton:
I've "solved" the 12v yellow lead mystery with a "little" help from Ultimarc support.  :applaud:
The 12v lead enables automatic switching to the AV mode when the cabinet is turned on.  :cheers:  Great stuff! It's that simple and it really does the job!
Now I've got rgb on my scart tv set. Amazing, sharp quality! Much better than s-video.

I've decided to give win 98 a chance and see if it works OK, as I'm looking for a direct boot to arcade OS. Presently following an advice from this link:

http://www.marcianitos.org/tutoriales/arcadeos.php

A step-by-step direct boot configuration for AOS with win98 (Spanish only, I'm afraid) I'm Portuguese myself but I don't have much trouble understanding Spanish.

Hey guys, I'm starting to get excited about this! Any thoughts?

P.B.

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