MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: The Battle-Road [battroad] running extremely slow

I bought secondhand. I got it from a guy who said he bought it to play games on - he'd even done a custom build. But after 6 months he'd decided gaming wasn't for him. I paid £500 for it, around $750.

To be frank - this is the curse of PC's They don't easily die completely. So you keep on using them forever, hardly noticing how bad everything has gotten until, for one reason or anther, you buy a new one.

A common thing I hear is "Well, I only use it for the Internet". Until they use the Internet on a more modern computer and find that yes, even using the Internet improves.

I don't only use this machine for Mame, so it justified my last round of buying. Mame works pretty well on this setup though.

Mind - once I got this my wife used it, decided her older computer was destined for the dump, and she got an i5 laptop.... So my spending did have a knock-on effect.

I can sympathize that people don't want to buy a new computer - but actually I do so much on it, it's not difficult to justify an upgrade every three to five years. When I buy upgrades, I tend to go as high up the chain as I'm able..... There isn't a single piece of software out there that is getting LESS complex and demanding.

What I really need is something that can make me better at Space Invaders, Missile Command, Amidar etc. Because I've been playing them for 40 years or more, and I've probably gotten WORSE.

You Mame dev's really bring a lot of joy to people, so I thank you for that. It's not just the games, it's the whole youthful experience. Every time I hear the swarm noise in Galaxian I'm transported...........