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Boot CD installs DOS, Vantage, Raine, MAME (1 of 7 versions) and Game Launcher
shorthair:
1. mouse support: are you saying this doesn't automatically have mouse support at all?...meaning no trackball/spinner?
2. advancemame I think has different video requirements than regular Mame. Particularly when using the effects.
All-in-all neat idea, though. I have an old compaq, maaybe PII level, I may try this on.
spystyle:
--- Quote from: Kaytrim on May 28, 2007, 01:15:58 am ---Is there some way to rotate the screen in DOS like iRotate or Pivot Pro does in Windows?
Kaytrim
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It's very easy to rotate the screen in DOS. You just have to tell mame (mame.cfg) and your front end (in Game Launcher's case glaunch.cfg) that you have a vertical cab.
Edit those two files and you're vertical.
I'll do it now on my virtual PC MAME 36:
type 'setup' at the C:> prompt
change the following lines:
ror = ('yes' if rotate right, 'no' if rotate left)
rol = ('yes' if rotate left, 'no' if rotate right)
then to save and exit - press 'alt' 'enter' scroll down to 'exit' and press 'enter' twice
then type 'setupGL' at the C:> prompt
change the following lines:
menu_orientation = 1
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Thanks for the question, I've added the above to the readme for the next revision
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As for SDD
Scitech display doctor just speeds up video. It adds "univbe" and "VBE 2.0 / 3.0" which are video accelerators for DOS. Windows already has drivers but DOS doesn't so they should be added. If SDD doesn't crash your computer it should speed it up. If it does crash your computer try installing the actual DOS driver for your video card.
--- Quote from: shorthair ---
1. mouse support: are you saying this doesn't automatically have mouse support at all?...meaning no trackball/spinner?
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This does have optional mouse support. It's an elective at install.
spystyle:
--- Quote from: IG-88 on May 25, 2007, 08:44:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: spystyle on May 25, 2007, 03:05:32 pm ---
Anyway, I just tested the new release boot CD on an old computer:
P2 333mhz
32 MB RAM
4 GB HDD
24X CD-Rom
ISA soundblaster sound card, CT2260, Vibra 16
PCI video card, Ct6760, 3D Blaster Banshee
mame .36 optimized for Pentium 2
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So, if I'm reading you right, you got your computer to work by using "version .36 mame" option and selecting the "1. Pentium II / III / 4 or Celeron (i686 optimization)" ?
I couldn't get any of mine to work unless I choose the "v.55 mame" and the "2. Pentium I (i586 optimization)....weird!
Have you tried the dmame option yet?
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By the way, I had an old proprietary computer (compaq or something) and it would always crash with optimized MAME. So I think your problem is common for 'proprietary' computers, they probably all have the same motherboard chipset.
The P2 that I successfully used optimization on was a 'home build' (ie: not Compaq)
Dmame will likely solve the problem
Kaytrim:
--- Quote from: spystyle on May 28, 2007, 09:48:44 am ---
--- Quote from: Kaytrim on May 28, 2007, 01:15:58 am ---Is there some way to rotate the screen in DOS like iRotate or Pivot Pro does in Windows?
Kaytrim
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It's very easy to rotate the screen in DOS. You just have to tell mame (mame.cfg) and your front end (in Game Launcher's case glaunch.cfg) that you have a vertical cab.
Edit those two files and you're vertical....
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:woot SWEET. Thanks Craig this is the little tidbit that I have been missing. Now I can go solid state with a CF card instead of the the dieing HD that I currently have. I used your sortinfo system to pare down the ROMs list now I can use your DOS CD.
:cheers:
Kaytrim
spystyle:
CF card?
If it is faster than a hard drive, I'd like a link to info about that. The last time I becnhmarked a USB keydrive it was slower than a hard drive.
If your hard drives are failing stop dropping them, also check the power supply with a PSU tester - it may be frying them.
About sortinfo : it's an excellent tool! Not mine though, written by "EmuMannen"
He also wrote a Raine tool for GameLauncher!
http://hem.passagen.se/robert.palmqvist/Downloads/downloads.html
I will use that to add Raine to the next revision fot he boot CD :)
Big thanks to EmuMannen
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