> lol > I mean real hardware acceleration for graphics, not using HLSL which makes games run > at 10fps
It *is* real hardware acceleration. If we ran those effects on the CPU you'd need a 4 GHz i7 to run pacman at 50% speed. Since video cards are much better at that sort of thing post-Crysis, I can run HLSL on my GeForce GTX570 and get hundreds of frames per second.
Similarly, if your video card can't handle HLSL, it will have no prayer of working when we do actually draw polygons on it. Many, many people got a wake-up call when Supermodel was released - it requires a video card of similar power to MAME's HLSL and it does all the graphics on the card.