> > which has a vertical screen, and so I need to rotate them, and it runs on a
> >PIII 500mhz,

> I'm in a similar situation to you I'm on a pentium 450mhz

There are plenty emulators which don't need the horsepower MAME needs. Kawaks can run nicely in those systems and it uses mostly the same roms as MAME with a few additions.

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