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Title: old school classics, dosmame
Post by: epic69 on May 03, 2005, 02:55:40 pm

My question is this. Can i run dos mame 0.95 on a 200 mhz gateway pc with 64mb ram in dos 7.0 (win98se)? Or will this be way too slow? I am going to be using a 19" vertical arcade monitor with arcadeos.
If the current version of dosmame 0.95 is goign to be too slow will running an older version of mame make a difference? if so can i use a rom set for 0.95 mame on an older build of mame? or are they not backward compatible?

Thanks everybody.

Title: Re: old school classics, dosmame
Post by: SirPeale on May 03, 2005, 03:12:29 pm

It will run, but be waaaaaay too slow.

If you're just interested in playing, try out VAntAGE (http://www.mameworld.net/pc2jamma/).

If you're interested in accuracy, upgrade to at least a 500MHz processor.

Title: Re: old school classics, dosmame
Post by: epic69 on May 03, 2005, 03:24:33 pm

Too slow even with using an older version of dosmame? then using an old version of dos mame will roms work with it? I guess really getting a 500mhz and mb at this point is really not that expensive, should be able to find cpu and mb for under $40 i woudl think and then if i got AGP slot then much easier to just use the arcadeVGA i got.

Title: Re: old school classics, dosmame
Post by: SirPeale on May 03, 2005, 03:28:52 pm

Well, you said DOS Mame .95.  Sure, an older version will work.

Title: Re: old school classics, dosmame
Post by: epic69 on May 03, 2005, 06:16:09 pm

OK thanks for your help, just would need to see if .95 roms work with an old version of mame or not. just a newbie trying to learn the ropes, you guys are helpful. thanks!