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audiomidiman:

iRotate doesn't seem to work for me on my 98 box w/ similar configuration at work. But, I'll try it on my computer at home. As far as an older MAME compiled for the P2, where should I look for this? I would like to have the machine to boot into MAME and have an easy way for people to navigate to the game they want to play. Would this require a from end? Or would MAME32 work ok?

Thanks!

ahofle:

http://www.mame.net/oldmame.html

Remember you'll need an older ROM set for that version (you will most likely get errors if you are using a current romset with an old version of MAME due to missing/added/updated roms).  You'll need a front end for those MAME versions as they are just the command line executables.

leapinlew:


--- Quote from: audiomidiman on January 09, 2007, 02:11:13 pm ---iRotate doesn't seem to work for me on my 98 box w/ similar configuration at work. But, I'll try it on my computer at home. As far as an older MAME compiled for the P2, where should I look for this? I would like to have the machine to boot into MAME and have an easy way for people to navigate to the game they want to play. Would this require a from end? Or would MAME32 work ok?

Thanks!

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It's worth it to get a FE working. I had Mame32 working at one point, but a good front end makes all the difference. I use MALA now, but I've used Mamewah and it's good too.

audiomidiman:


--- Quote from: leapinlew on January 09, 2007, 03:16:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: audiomidiman on January 09, 2007, 02:11:13 pm ---iRotate doesn't seem to work for me on my 98 box w/ similar configuration at work. But, I'll try it on my computer at home. As far as an older MAME compiled for the P2, where should I look for this? I would like to have the machine to boot into MAME and have an easy way for people to navigate to the game they want to play. Would this require a from end? Or would MAME32 work ok?

Thanks!

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It's worth it to get a FE working. I had Mame32 working at one point, but a good front end makes all the difference. I use MALA now, but I've used Mamewah and it's good too.

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Ok, I'm having a slight issue figuring out how to get frontends working. Do I need to get MAME working first then load MALA or Mamewah to work in the frontend? Or can I just load MALA? MALA looks really nice I'm just trying to grasp how to get the software working. I'm the IT guy at my work so I know SBS 2003, XP, 2000, 98 and 95. I even run SCO UNIX on one of our servers. However at home and when I'm doing design at work I run osX. I've only run MacMAME and MAME32 but I want to get a frontend working.

Bill

pmc:


--- Quote from: audiomidiman on January 09, 2007, 02:11:13 pm ---As far as an older MAME compiled for the P2, where should I look for this?

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I'd start with a stock version of MAME and only explore an alternate compile if you discover that you need the performance boost. When I was running an AMD K2, it was worth using an alternate compile. But that was a few years ago and YMMV. Google around for binaries or compile yourself (you want the i686 flag enabled). I found a 0.36 binary here.

After searching around a little, I'm more and more thinking you shouldn't bother with this unless you need to.

-pmc

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