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Re: MAME PC - What type to buy?
« on: June 21, 2009, 12:30:11 PM »
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Hi to any 'MAMErs' on AP.

Does anyone have any other preferences i should consider??

MM.

My Mame cabinet runs happily on a 800Mhz P3 with  640M of ram, but my arcade interest doesn't go much past the eighties - Space Invaders, Galaxian, Packman etc. I also don't use the latest version of Mame - I stopped at the last one that maintains hiscores (V1.07 maybe?)  OS is XP.  Machine also runs ArcadeJukebox.
Depends a bit on what frontend you use, MameWare for me, but if you plan to run in cocktail mode then I suggest making sure the video card will support rotation in hardware - I think all nVidia chipsets do, then I use a shareware program iRotate.  Makes life a lot easier I reckon.

Having just bought a pin my Mame machine is not seeing much use!

cheers,
David.