I finally decided to get out of the ghetto and ordered most of the parts for my new PC today, heres whats coming -
Athlon XP 2200+ Processor
256mb of 333mhz DDR Ram
128mb Gforce 4 Graphics Card
Soundblaster Live! 5.1 OEM
An EPOX motherboard that does all sorts of mad stuff
Top-of-the-line 17" Mitsubishi CRT Moniter
MS Intellimouse Explorer
A cheap-arse standard Keyboard
Not bad eh? Should get a nice framerate out of STUN Runner with that and hopefully will push the Sys21 stuff along at a decent speed in a future MAME.
And to top it off I recovered a pair of CD-Rs I gave to somebody a while ago with what was my MAME ROM collection at the time. Its nowhere near what it was when my HD went tits-up.com, but its a decent amount and has most of the rediculously sized NG shit on it. Time to start the long 56k dial-up road to recovery soon methinks.