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AdvanceMame/WinXP Problems
Antix:
Hi guys,
I have my J-PAC now, all connected and am starting to play around with AdvanceMame and MameWah.
The problem am having is, I do the advmame -default thing, and then try to use advcfg.exe. When I click on this, or try to run from DOS nothing happens at all. If I unload the svgawin, advcfg brings up an error, when I load svgawin, nothing happens again, not even an error. So I cant set up the monitor.
My setup is;
Windows XP
AMD XP2000+
512MB RAM
J-PAC
Arcade Monitor
MameWah
ATI Radeon 9600XT
I can get mamewah running, and can play games on my PC screen using advancemame or command line mame. But as soon as I try to go to the arcade monitor, I just get the double screen (In mamewah). As far as I can understand, I should run advcfg to sort out the video modes. But I cant.
if I run advv, my screen goes blank and I have to reboot my PC. (no display on the arcade monitor either except for loads of garbage)
Am I missing something really basic? Sorry once again if this has been asked before. I did search but there is soooo much here. If anyone has a tutorial for how to do this I would really appreciate it. I cant seem to find a tutorial for setting this up in windowsXP, just in DOS. I would prefer to use windows if I can.
Next step is the AdvanceCD but as I say, I would prefer windows.
Thanks for any assistance :)
Oh and I cant buy an ArcadeVGA card, I just cant afford it
Antix:
OK I managed to get a weeeeee bit further :D
I grabbed some settings from here that I found in someones post... checked them in my advmame rc file
device_video_pclock 5-50
device_video_hclock 15.75
device_video_vclock 50-60
And now, I have Mamewah frontend displaying fine..... (yipee!!) But, when I try to launch a game, it freezes and I have to reboot my machine.... (not so yipee) So Im getting there.... any suggestions?
Antix:
damn, previous info was a bit wrong.... I had installed Powerstrip to test, and it is what has allowed me to see the MAMEWAH screen on my arcade monitor, not the settings in AdvanceMame. (makes sense really, cause those changes wouldnt have registered when I load Mamewah :D)
Back to the drawing board
Antix:
Monitor:
* Orientation: Vertical
* Size: 25"
* Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
* CRT: Color CGA
* Model : Wells Gardner K7191 manufactured by Zenith
* Picture Tube: G-A63ADG25X
This is my monitor so it is CGA.... just gotta get this damn advv or advcfg working.... no one else had this problem before?
Antix:
Has anyone managed to get advancemame working in windowsXP? Nothing seems to beworking for me. I ave read the manual for the monitor etc, but, the fact that I cant even get advcfg to work under windows makes me think that the binaries they have on their source page are not working or something....
Cause it just does nothing, so how can I set up the pclock etc if I cant even get the thing running? (Same goes for advv....)
Ah well, I guess I will keep plugging away, Im going to now move onto try DOS and linux.... maybe they will work.