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Capthowdy:
this is a very maddening hobby sometimes.

you have to end up hunting down 12 different zip files just to get an emulator to work...and sometimes it just takes days to configure.

I downloaded Zinc and all of it's renderers and bios...the GUI...

finally got the damn thing to work after being up all night.  But the problem is that the framerate is staying at about 40 fps.  and it just looks damn slow.

it's also too loud...anybody figure that one out yet?

the final problem I have is that it opens up in a window and not fullscreen.

what am I doing wrong?   ???
mccoy178:
Zinc can be a mother.  Have you tried HowardC's wrapper for it?  Patience is a virtue. :notworthy:
Dizzle:
Zinc drove me crazy for a long time.
I can't remember where I got it, but there's a program called ZincGui which makes things tons easier.  A google search should come up with the program.
Congui:
Hi there.

Zinc need a bit of patience.   About the speed and sound, I haven't had any problems yet; but for the full screen issue try this:  Open the renderer.cfg file and edit it with the following values:
XSize         = 640   ; Window/fullscreen X size
YSize         = 480   ; Window/fullscreen Y size
FullScreen      = 1      ; Fullscreen mode: 0/1

Hope this helps,
Congui
Howard_Casto:
This shoudl also be obvious, but you have to actually point to at least a zinc.cfg via command line (which can point to the renderer.cfg internally).  Zinc doesn't have default cfg file names like mame does so you actually have to call them.  And zinc doesn't run at all without setting some of the basic settings. 
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