Posted by Darren Harris on 13, 2000 at 4:51 AM:
I'm looking to setup M.A.M.E. on my PC so I can practice certain classic games for a tournament next year. I have even gone through the trouble of finding and purchasing actual arcade game control panels, and a half dozen Microsoft Sidewinders to hack for this purpose.
I'm hearing that speed(or lack thereof) is an issue when playing M.A.M.E. games on the Windows platform(which is what I think I'll be limited to since I'll be using the Sidewinder PCBs). But since I'll only be playing the classics(ie; Millipede, Joust, Choplifter, Asteroids, Gunsmoke), will this really be an issue in my case? Will the games play exactly the same as the actual arcade games? My system is a 450Mhz Pentium 2, with 128mb, and an ATI All-In-Wonder Pro 8megs(PCI).
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated(along with recommendations for a M.A.M.E. version and front end for my purpose).
Thanks a lot.
Darren harris
Searcher7@mail.con2.com