GroovyMAME setup flowchart or wiki

[krick]

A lot of the same questions keep getting posted here again and again and they're hard to find by searching alone.

I think it might be useful to create a "setting up GroovyMAME" flowchart.  If not a flowchart, maybe a wiki that has pages for various popular combinations of video cards and monitors though the number of combinations might be prohibitive.  That's why I suggested a flowchart format.

Are there any open-source flowcharting programs on the market like MS Visio?


Some of the setup variables:

Video cards:  ATI pre-2xxx,  ATI 2xxx to 4xxx, ArcadeVGA 3000, other
Drivers: CRT_EmuDriver, stock + soft15KHz, stock drivers
Monitors: low res 15KHz, dual res 15K/25KHz, tri-sync 15/25/31KHz, VGA, PC monitor, TV, LCD

Even within monitor classes, there's variations that require custom modeline setups per monitor model.


Also, we really need a donation link for Calamity.  He's the hardest working man in show business and he needs to get paid for his time.

[Calamity]

Hi krick,

You are absolutely right, there's an urgent need for a wiki. Hopefully we can start with that within some weeks. I'd just like to achieve a somewhat 'final' release of the Switchres patch before writting stuff, so it doesn't need to be rewritten substantially.

Not what you asked, but here is a diagram I made that was lost in the forum's depths, and may help clarifying how this works.

I'm interested too in some free software for flowcharting.

[Justin Z]

Try dia, projects.gnome.org/dia/.  Has always done the trick for me.