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can i do anything with this pc
Jack Burton:
hell yeah, you can do a lot of things with it.
first off, you're probably not going to run Windows on a machine like that if you are doing emulation. Pure Dos is the way to go.
After that there are plenty of old emulators that should run just fine. You should be able to get 100% speed out of some classic arcade games in MAME, in NeoRageX, Snes9x, and maybe one of the older NES emulators like RockNes or something. Sure, the emulation might not be 100% accurate, but it's still a lot fun.
Also, if you must run an OS, try a stripped down version of Linux, it should be able to run much faster and perhaps allow you to compile one of the newer versions of MAME for greater accuracy. It might even be a little faster than dos in some situations.
Plenty of life in those old machines if you just have a little patience and know how.
evilfuzzle:
definately not worth the trouble though. i speak from experience, i tried to set up a network of 120 of these pentium one computers i was given to by my work for and i was a f'ing pain in the butt. i only tried to do it to see if i could. i wish i hadn't because i had the worst headache afterwards :hissy:
Jack Burton:
Well, I would say that setting up a network of 100 computers and installing MAME are kind in different areas of time and difficulty.
These older computers aren't really much different to use than any modern computer to me.
evilfuzzle:
--- Quote from: Jack Burton on September 27, 2008, 04:32:31 am ---Well, I would say that setting up a network of 100 computers and installing MAME are kind in different areas of time and difficulty.
These older computers aren't really much different to use than any modern computer to me.
--- End quote ---
i meant that old computers are sucky for anything than word processing and they are really had to use and get working, they just aren't compatible with anything.
polaris:
cheers for the input guys. im sure it wont be easy but i feel that i cant have much worse a pc than was used in the early projects of the hobby. if i can run five old mame games itll be worth not throwing a working pc out, ive got an old crt to go with it, so it screams, (heavy) bartop at me.
any ideas as to if i can avoid the keyboard hack, im kinda jumping very much in to the deep end here.
jack, i'll go with your suggestion of trying to compile the pc first, with dos or linux, this should be interesting.
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