Response to Windows XP and MAME

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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