Dandelion
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Joined: Sat Apr 30, 2022 3:54 am

MAME on Pi or IPC?

Greetings,
I'm building my own arcade cabinet. It's been a long slow journey, but it's almost ready for the control.

I have a raspberry pi 3 that I have configured to play some Atari games, but recently rescued two IPCs (Industrial computers) from the dumpster.

The IPC specs:
• CPU Intel Atom 1.6 GHz (N270)
• Memory 1GB DDR2 SDRAM built-in
• Keyboard/Mouse 1 x PS/2
• Storage CF: 1 x front-accessible type I/II Compact Flash slot
HDD: 1 x built-in 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD bracket
• Display DB15 VGA connector, 1600 x 1200 @ 85 Hz
• Watchdog Timer Programmable 256 levels timer interval,
from 1 to 255 sec
• Expansion Slot 1 x Mini-PCIe
• Serial Ports 2 x RS-232
• Serial Ports 1 x RS-422/485 serial port
• Serial Port Speed 50 ~ 115.2 kbps
• LAN 2 x 10/100/1000 Base-T RJ-45 ports
(Built-in boot ROM in flash BIOS)
• USB Ports 4 x USB 2.0
• Audio 5.1 channel HD audio

I fired it up and it currently has Windows 7 Professional SP1.

If I use the IPC, do I put MAME on Windows or reformat and use Ubuntu?.

The ultimate goal is to play classic arcade games like Pacman, Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, Dragon's Lair, Joust, etc.

Is the IPC beefy enough? Or is the Pi 3 the way to go?

Thanks in advance!

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