MAME version recommendation? Pentium III, 1 Ghz, Windows 98SE

[saint]

Putting together a bartop cabinet, need a MAME version recommendation. Going on a Pentium III, 1 Ghz or so, Windows 98SE, 256 megs of RAM.

Will only be using the ROMs I purchased from Starroms back when they were in operation if that helps for determining best version -- don't know if any of those ROMs (all Atari I believe) changed any as MAME progressed. Also will run whatever ROMs are freely released on http://mamedev.org/roms/.

Planning on using MaLa for the front end. I haven't kept up with MAME for years. Suggestions?

Thanks!

--- saint

[retrometro]

v.106

[Ummon]

I haven't gotten anywhere near that with a measly 1ghz. Maybe if it's running DOS, or extremely stripped down. I can't find it, but Aaron did a benchmark of mame around .90 for a PIII.

[retrometro]

I haven't gotten anywhere near that with a measly 1ghz. Maybe if it's running DOS, or extremely stripped down. I can't find it, but Aaron did a benchmark of mame around .90 for a PIII.

Here's my previous candy cab fitted with a Pentium III 700Mhz running mame v0.115.  Some games in the video are early 80's but i've got some late 80's and early/mid 90's games in there too.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo_-S1fmfmk[/youtube]

[TalkingOctopus]

I use MAME .66 with my P3 733.  It can run just about all the games.

[Ummon]

Here's my previous candy cab fitted with a Pentium III 700Mhz running mame v0.115.  Some games in the video are early 80's but i've got some late 80's and early/mid 90's games in there too.

And OS and configuration look to be DOS, yes?  (And I'm guessing you were using a VGA monitor, yes?)

[EnderWiggen22]

Don't do it man. It's time to move on....

My 1st cab was by old pc (Intel Celeron 800Mhz, 256Mb RAM, w/ a 128Mb VGA card). Its does the job w/ simple roms and mala (awesome fe). But...

You can buy a P4 3 Ghz Intel Retail CPU + Board w/ 1Ghz Samsung Ram for $108 w/ shipping from price watch. Add a few extra parts and you can run newer, more demanding roms and Hyperspin (another awesome fe which mainly demands speed and ram over graphics card strength). My newest cab works great w/ a $25 saphire card. (which still runs mala half time...)

[retrometro]

Here's my previous candy cab fitted with a Pentium III 700Mhz running mame v0.115.  Some games in the video are early 80's but i've got some late 80's and early/mid 90's games in there too.

And OS and configuration look to be DOS, yes?  (And I'm guessing you were using a VGA monitor, yes?)

The one from the video above was Windows XP using the old SNK candy cab's arcade monitor.  It had the version one ArcadeVGA in it.

[TOK]

Anywhere between .84 and .99.
.99 has the Golden Tee games and the Robotron video speed fix, as well as hiscore.dat support.
My bartop has .84 on a P3/833 with 512meg of RAM and a gutted version of XP and MaLa. It has a Stargate control panel and I just run a limited set of ROMS, but all the classics and even the not-so-classics like Gigawing and Mars Matrix run fine on this setup.

Since all 3 of my MAME machines have been based on hardware that was thrown in the closet while upgrading my desktop machines, the thought of buying a new computer specifically for MAME seems kind of odd to me. I also feel MAME started getting worse with every "upgrade" around .100, so perhaps my perspective is a bit skewed. 

[Ummon]

Here's my previous candy cab fitted with a Pentium III 700Mhz running mame v0.115.  Some games in the video are early 80's but i've got some late 80's and early/mid 90's games in there too.

And OS and configuration look to be DOS, yes?  (And I'm guessing you were using a VGA monitor, yes?)

The one from the video above was Windows XP using the old SNK candy cab's arcade monitor.  It had the version one ArcadeVGA in it.

Ah, the avga answers that part - but I haven't seen anywhere anyone being able to run almost anything on so late a version of Mame with so low-powered a machine. Let alone it having XP.