DO I have to use AdvanceMame?

[deadmoney5]

I am in the process of building a cabinet and I will be using a tv via S-video...or maybe components (but that is a diff topic)..

Do I have to use AdvanceMame to be able to use the tv correctly?

If so, is there a Mame32 version?

I'm not to good with DOS...

thanks

[HaRuMaN]

I use MAME 32 with the TV-out on my computer (its S-Video) and I have no problems.  I just upped the font size in MAME 32 so that I could read it on the TV.

[telengard]

I am in the process of building a cabinet and I will be using a tv via S-video...or maybe components (but that is a diff topic)..

Do I have to use AdvanceMame to be able to use the tv correctly?

If so, is there a Mame32 version?

I'm not to good with DOS...

thanks

Just to let you know the Windows version of AdvanceMame works quite well now.  I just switched over from the DOS version a few weeks ago.

[mattv]

There are still a few rough edges to work out in Advancemame32 mainly around video card support - other than that it's perfect

If you are using and arcadeVGA you will be fine, if you are using anything else you may have an exciting time. Many video cards that work perfectly in DOS need a bit of tweaking for the windows version.

Key issues that I have come across are

Low pclock support is not good in windows, for example my geforce4 4200 can do a pclock as low as 5 in DOS, but can't go below 14 in wondows. You can get around this by setting the pclock divider/multiplier on.

Interlace mode supor tis not as good.  many cards that support interlaced modes in dos doe not support them in windows. This can be a real pain if you want to play verticle games on a horizintal monitor. Only way arround this so far is to get a new video card

Other than those minor issues it works great!