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Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
sk8ersublime:
when i plug just the CGA to either the VGA or DVI without the LCD connected I get nothing on the screen. The monitor sounds like it is trying to sync, but all i get is raster.
Gage:
I'm running soft-15khz and cabMAME and am currently having an issue with a few of my roms, notably The Simpsons and G.I. Joe. When I run them, they appear to run at a faster speed than normal and are split into four different windows (the "full screen" version of the game, identically displayed in four areas of the screen).
The games were running perfectly on this setup until I added an I-Pac to my existing J-Pac setup (I built a custom 4-player control panel to use with my existing arcade cab). I'm not sure if something I did during the I-Pac programming caused a MAME shortcut key to be activated or something.
I'm wondering if it has to do with my PC resolution as opposed to the game resolution. When I run it in my arcade cab, I have the Windows resolution set to 640 x 480. If I uninstall soft-15khz and run it on a standard LCD monitor at 1280 x 600, Simpsons and GI Joe run in one screen, although it's much smaller than fullscreen. I was thinking MAME controlled the resolution output, but perhaps it's also tied to what you have your Windows resolution set to as well?
Any ideas?
moundy:
I have a multisync monitor(nec xm-2950), an ATI xfx hd 4890, an i7 2600k , xp pro 32 and xp 64 bit, Windows 7, and all the hard drive space you could ask for. I want to build a very stable system to put in a cab I've been building. I mainly want MAME, and older consoles(SNES,NES,Genesis,PS1...etc) and Hyperspin. What would be the best windows OS to use for my setup that would be able to use advantage of soft15khz yet get the most performance? I'm guessing xp 64bit but I'm just not sure. I'm also gonna post a similar thread in groovymame as well about it's use.
SailorSat:
I'd go for XP64 as long as you can get drivers for everything.
Paradroid:
G'day.
I'm loving Soft-15kHz on my SCART TVs! So thankful that this tool exists!
I have a few different TVs that I've been playing around with including a 16:9 aspect ratio model. Of course, this isn't very useful for playing classic games but it looks great for playing modern PC games and watching movies.
I'm wondering if it's possible to create an interlaced 16:9 mode for use with Soft-15kHz. I'm hoping for something like 640 × 360 interlaced. I'm completely ignorant to whether this is possible and, if it is, how to go about creating the appropriate modelines.
Any help or advice would be very much appreciated! :)
Thanks,
Dale