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| maraxle:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on November 04, 2004, 08:41:25 pm ---go earlier than that. Try experimenting with stuff around .20 --- End quote --- On a 166? Nah. I've setup machines running classics using .36 on P100's and P133's, and they get 100% full speed. That's using FreeDOS, not Win98 though. |
| zaphod:
--- Quote from: kcorcoran on November 04, 2004, 07:09:39 pm ---please post versions you guys are using and any known working config files.. autoexec.. config.. etc --- End quote --- I tried to copy them but it appears the diskette drive in there has decided to be read-only. Was likely that way since installation but this was the first need to write to it. Sorry. :( |
| kcorcoran:
tried installing vantage last night. got mr do to play once.. got about 50 fps but the colors really seemed off on it. going to have to trial and error with settigs tonight probably. no centiped on vantage though. :'( wonder if i can run vantage with gamelauncher. arcadeOS seems too complicated to set up. something happened last night though.. got it running decent and put it in the cabinet. about a minute into playing mr do.. the whole machine locked up.. had to cycle power. now.. any game i play in mame.. any version... win98 or pure dos.. locks up the machine right at about 30 seconds into play like clockwork. going to check the computer case and make sure everything is seated and secure then do a fresh win98 install. arrrg. so close but so far.. i thought i was done. grr. |
| sac01:
Hmmm, odd, sounds like it's locking after a certain number of frames 60fps x 30 seconds. The colors should all look correct in vantage, true, there is no centipede (no analog support that i know of for the trackball atm) I just spent the entire afternoon at work playing stuff on vantage, so i can vouch for it running for hours with no lockup. sac |
| MonitorGuru:
For low CPU power make sure you're doing NOTHING to the video image other than outputting it at 1:1 scale. E.g. a vga card, AdvanceMame and a fixed frequency CGA monitor. Any time you start scaling the video image, either integer wise (320x240 blown to 640x480) or advanced logic (the same blow up but with softening of the pixels) or floating point (320x240 blown up to fit a 800x600 screen) you will have almost no processing power left for Mame to run. See a recent post of mine, I was even able to take mame .87, in AdvanceMame form, which of course is a huge hog compared to .36, and a 1997 4 meg PCI video card and a Celeron 366 cpu get over 200% performance on most classic games when unthrottling. A 166 would barely hit 100%, but with older AdvanceMame you should do well. |
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