Red 5 Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 I too, like the rest of the world it seems, am planning on building a mame machine. Just for classic arcade games. (Nothing after 1988) Right now, I am running MAME beautifully on my computer which is a 2.3 ghz machine. Can I use my older machine which is like a P2 or P3 tops and I believe 800 mhz. If I throw in 128 for RAM and a good sized hard drive would I be able to pull it off ? I know a video card would be cheap because it doesn't take much there, but for my last question, how does it look on a TV instead of a monitor? I can afford a much bigger TV screen than I can a computer monitor screen, but how bad will it look? Thanks for you help with this MAME newbie ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avid Fan Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 It will look decent (the games anyway, not the desktop) but you must use at least an S-video cable, anything less turns arcade games blurry (hence so many game review sights giving MAT 1&2 bad ratings in the graphics department, they werent using s-video) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 5 Posted October 27, 2004 Author Share Posted October 27, 2004 Yeah, I was definitely going to use S-video. What about the computer. How cheap can I get here w/o experiencing any slow down? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackjack Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 A P3@800 will run the classics just fine but you might need to use an older version to get the speed. I say might but I think you'll probably be ok even with a current version of mame. I used to run Mame32 on a P3@550 and all the oldies worked great. In fact, when I first started using Mame, it was on an AMD K63 @ 333mhz w/32megs and a 4 meg ati card. Even with that lame setup, the classics worked pretty good, but that was back in '98. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariYoungin Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 I have a Pentium 100 sitting in my room that can run pacman without slowdown, that was the only game i ever tested on that system...So for classics you can go pretty low. Id say 500 just to be safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 5 Posted October 28, 2004 Author Share Posted October 28, 2004 That's great news. I guess the biggest cost will be the joystick. Thanks again for all the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 I have a Cellie@600 and only 64mb of RAM, 1MB being used for video, and it runs older ones great, chokes though on 2d fighters that are relativley new (Xmen v SF), very choppy in fullscreen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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