> Got myself a Core i5-2500k (3.3ghz) on an ASRock P67 Extreme4. I can now play > Propcycle @ 100% on MAME 0.143 64-bit. > > With two clicks in the EFI/BIOS, I'm at 4.4ghz. It's amazing how fantastically smooth > the game is for the era/hardware it was developed on.
the hardware is extremely powerful even by today's standards. It's a bit like comparing the early Macs and Amigas. Same feeble CPU but the Amiga wiped the floor with everything because of hardware optimization and custom chips. Namco is/was the king of custom chips back then.