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krick:

--- Quote from: screaming on September 26, 2006, 01:21:22 pm ---Has anything changed in the past 10 releases or so that would require me to upgrade my CPU from an Athlon XP 1800+?

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Is that sarcasm?  If not, apparently, you haven't heard the screams of a thousand mame users crying out in terror when Aaron rewrote the renderer/artwork system in MAME 107.

As usual, the CPU specs have been climbing.  However with the renderer re-write, MAME now requires a somewhat modern video card now.  Something at least DirectX 8.1 compliant, I imagine, and 64MB of onboard memory is probably a good idea if you plan on running any of the new ultra high res artwork that the new system requires.

There's some experimental multi-threading going on in the new renderer that can be turned on in 108 with an ini setting.  It's just the renderer, not the game code that is multi-threaded so don't get your hopes up.  It will only make a difference in certain borderline cases that are limited by the renderer.

Word on the street is that Intel Conroe (Core Duo) CPUs are the new speed champions for MAME.  Plus, some of the low end models are VERY overclockable.  At stock speeds, the Conroe chips are beating AMD chips, and overclocked, they're wiping the floor with their dead bodies.

Obviously, games that ran at 13 frames per second before are not going to be playable on anthing any time soon, including an overclocked Conroe.  But the situation is certainly much improved.
wolfi:
External coin counters are shown in the ui under bookkeeping, for games that support this. If the coin counter bit is documented in the driver, you could take this bit, route it to an output, write an external application that takes this bit and connect a real external counter.



--- Quote from: johnm160 on September 26, 2006, 07:33:35 pm ---Ok this is from the whats new.txt

 added external coin counters and coin lockouts

So now you can wire counters??

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Mick:
Yeah, when do Golden Tee Fore! get out ? Can't wait for that to happen !
Marky_1979:
Wow yes Golden tee is amazing what versions are currently playable?
gamecreature:

--- Quote from: wolfi on September 27, 2006, 03:04:37 am ---External coin counters are shown in the ui under bookkeeping, for games that support this. If the coin counter bit is documented in the driver, you could take this bit, route it to an output, write an external application that takes this bit and connect a real external counter.

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I doubt that I'll ever get my coin counter wired up. The last guy did a real hatchet job on the wiring when he stripped my cab. At least I got the lights working again.
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