What are you people talking about? I wasn't listing my computer parts
as a show of "power". I was listing them for people to see what it's
will work on. I have all types of computers in my basement from a 180
running NT, a 233 running 98, a couple of 500's, a 933, and a 1.4 all
running 2000. The 1.9 I was speaking of is the only machine I use XP
on and is why I used it as an example. If you recall there was a
question about how to use MAME with XP. Processor power doesn't mean
that much to me or I'd have an Itanium Server. Instead I have an
AS/400 here which I program in C, COBOL, RPG, CL, and DDS. I bought
the 1.9 so I could have my AS/400 on the internet via my 3meg
sattelite connection from Skycasters. If you think MAME can be hard
to setup try getting satellite working right -- which actually that's
another 900mhz computer running 2000 Server. Friends of mine have
T1's in their homes but they don't offer enough bandwidth for them to
sell wireless service to more than 30 neighbors and DS3 is terribly
expensive. Why am I talking about this? Ugh, anyways... I agree that
DMAME is awsome and the original, and WMAME is good too. The reason I
like MAME32 is because I'm LAZY! I like the GUI, I like the seemless
compatability with all version of Windows, I like that it keeps
itself updated, and I like not having to tinker with command lines
and icons. Say what you want... my answer to question still
remains... MAME32 is the easiest thing to get working in XP. If you
like playing with command line stuff then knock yourself out (I use
too) but if someone can't get something to work the last thing they
need to know is the hard way. At least get it working the easy way
then try the other version of MAME. Can we get off this topic now and
discuss what's really important? WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO GET A WORKING
COPY OF HARD DRIVE'N... I LOVED THAT GAME!!! Or, at least stereo
versions of Mortal Kombat II and III!
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