> Well, WINE can smoothly "emulate" games like Baldur's Gate or Starcraft; is
> clrmame more ressource-hungry than these games?


99% of scantime is pure hd access. A full MAME scan on Windows takes 7 seconds (with full usage of the diskcache). The bottleneck is the hd speed.

WINE's MFC and hd emulation seems to be not the best/fastest.
Games are not that resource hungry on the backend part (gfx are handled by your gfxhardware anyway).


Roman Scherzer