Gorf emulation

[IG-88]

Has anyone noticed that Gorf seems to lag a little in the older versions of Mame or with lower spec computers?  I've always wanted to bring this subject up and always forgot until I noticed it on one of my favorite YouTube channels tonite. I wonder why it does that. Is there something about the hardware/software that made/makes it difficult to emulate?

Thoughts?

[Nephasth]

Buy a Gorf, you won't regret it.

[IG-88]

No Gorf's in my area pal. Hense the emulation

[Nephasth]

http://kansascity.craigslist.org/vgm/3163552018.html

200 miles from Lincoln. My search radius is 250 miles. Go get it!

[IG-88]

Nice. $550-600 to go get it tho. Not in the budget right now. That Starship 1 however....

And this still doesn't explain why the emulation has been off. 

[alfonzotan]

Nice. $550-600 to go get it tho. Not in the budget right now. That Starship 1 however....

Yeah, I would grab that one in a heartbeat.

[Gray_Area]

I think....oh, yeah, no more MAWS. Well, anyways, Gorf emulation wasn't right until fairly recently.

[IG-88]

I think....oh, yeah, no more MAWS. Well, anyways, Gorf emulation wasn't right until fairly recently.

Really?!? I never new that. I wonder what was wrong with it?

And yes, I MISS MAWS too 

[Gray_Area]

MAWS got hacked. No one has wanted to invest time in resurrecting it. At least so far as I know.

[mimic]

Buy a Gorf, you won't regret it.

For crying out loud, just answer guys' question, not try to make him buy one. Everyone that is interested in the answer should just buy the real machine!? Sheesh.

[SavannahLion]

MAWS got hacked. No one has wanted to invest time in resurrecting it. At least so far as I know.

If it was written in PHP, I wouldn't doubt it. I had a Perl site killed because a trojan leveraged the unfettered access Perl scripts had navigating within a server. What was the vector? Badly written PHP on another hosted site didn't data check their forms. The admin squarely blamed the Perl script, even going so far as to say it was the Perl sites that were the vectors. This was even after I pointed out the specific vulnerability with PHP that caused the problem in the first place. moron.

I very much liked MAWS and considered it a near invaluable tool. Oh well....

Hey, Saint, how about hosting a new version of MAWS here? I'm a stickler for secure code.

[Vigo]

Buy a Gorf, you won't regret it.

It's bad enough I have to drool over your Gorf every time I look at your project thread, now ya got to rub it in on all us gorfless people.....

[Nephasth]

Buy a Gorf, you won't regret it.

It's bad enough I have to drool over your Gorf every time I look at your project thread, now ya got to rub it in on all us gorfless people.....

Not trying to rub it in, just trying to spread the joy. I don't know, maybe I might be coming off as a little ---uvula----ish lately...

You always hear how games are best played on their original platforms, I think Gorf is the epitome of that statement. Robot ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- talking, upper and lower lit graphics, inner side and backdrop art, a changing off screen rank display incorporated in the bezel, and a lit flight stick that indicates the next round is ready to be fired. The Gorf experience can never be properly emulated.

[IG-88]

The Gorf experience can never be properly emulated.

I absolutely agree on this. I can remember playing this when it was NEW at the rollerskating rink. It was fantastic...

[Mysterioii]

Buy a Gorf, you won't regret it.

It's bad enough I have to drool over your Gorf every time I look at your project thread, now ya got to rub it in on all us gorfless people.....

Not trying to rub it in, just trying to spread the joy. I don't know, maybe I might be coming off as a little ---uvula----ish lately...

You always hear how games are best played on their original platforms, I think Gorf is the epitome of that statement. Robot ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- talking, upper and lower lit graphics, inner side and backdrop art, a changing off screen rank display incorporated in the bezel, and a lit flight stick that indicates the next round is ready to be fired. The Gorf experience can never be properly emulated.

Man, I actually really liked Gorf as a kid, and I don't even remember all that stuff....   Damn I'm old, the memory is failing....

I think the three games I enjoyed playing the most in the arcades were probably Gorf, Mappy and Rygar....  If I had room for dedicated cabs those are probably the first I'd go for, and maybe a Tempest and/or Asteroids Deluxe to have some vector representation...   

[Vigo]

Not trying to rub it in, just trying to spread the joy. I don't know, maybe I might be coming off as a little ---uvula----ish lately...

haha, I wouldn't be worried about that. I am complaining more just because my Gorf envy is showing through. 

Oh, and I agree with the above about Gorf being much more than what is emulated....Sigh....What an awesome game.... 

*Vigo goes off to daydream about frolicking in a meadow with a Gorf Cabinet*

[SavannahLion]

Buy a Gorf, you won't regret it.

It's bad enough I have to drool over your Gorf every time I look at your project thread, now ya got to rub it in on all us gorfless people.....

Not trying to rub it in, just trying to spread the joy. I don't know, maybe I might be coming off as a little ---uvula----ish lately...

You always hear how games are best played on their original platforms, I think Gorf is the epitome of that statement. Robot ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- talking, upper and lower lit graphics, inner side and backdrop art, a changing off screen rank display incorporated in the bezel, and a lit flight stick that indicates the next round is ready to be fired. The Gorf experience can never be properly emulated.

Man, I actually really liked Gorf as a kid, and I don't even remember all that stuff....   Damn I'm old, the memory is failing....

I think the three games I enjoyed playing the most in the arcades were probably Gorf, Mappy and Rygar....  If I had room for dedicated cabs those are probably the first I'd go for, and maybe a Tempest and/or Asteroids Deluxe to have some vector representation...   

Crap, I don't remember most of that either. Of course by the time I discovered Gorf, it was nothing more than a cast off relic of a bygone era shoved into the corner to make way for SFII and MK.

[Ravenger]

Gorf is one of those games that's instantly nostalgic to me, along with Pengo. When I was a school kid my local record store had one in its little back-room arcade, together with Pengo, Taz-Mania, and some others I can't remember, and I spent a lot of time not managing to get any high scores 

Even on a relatively powerful PC Gorf emulation seems a bit jittery to me. I don't remember it being like that on the original machine. I play it on my cab quite a bit which has a dual-core AMD64 4800+ processor, but the Laser and Galaxian sections seem to run a bit slow. I'd like to play on a real machine to compare it.

I recently went to a museum that had Defender and Galaxian cabs and it was interesting to compare them to the emulated versions on my mame cab. Turns out I've got the HLSL settings for those games pretty close to the original CRT image.

[IG-88]

Thats basically the same hardware as my desktop. I have tried several different versions of mame from v.36 all the way up to v.135 on this machine and v.75 seems to run it the smoothest. Although it is still jittery in spots. Wierd.

[Gray_Area]

Strange, the fervor for Gorf.

@SavannahLion: are you offering to do the coding?