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Operating System History

I went through several iterations of the operating system for my cabinet. The earliest version of my cabinet used DOS; this had the obvious advantage of extremely low overhead, but was simply too limiting due to lack of hardware support. The first computer that I used in the cabinet was an old AMD K6-3/400 machine with a whopping 128 MB of RAM; low overhead was an important consideration. Network support, CD Rom support, etc were near impossibilities. Gameplay was pretty fast, sound worked...OK, but it was just too limiting.