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Kaytrim:


--- Quote from: psychotech on June 18, 2007, 07:54:21 pm ---No real help here I'm afraid.

psycho.

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Actually you have been a big help in giving me a plan of action. :D I am using Spystyle's latest DOS disk and the mouse driver included there.  Do you have any other mice drivers that I can try?  How do I check the PS/2 connectors?  There is 512mb of RAM on the machine so I shouldn't be running out.  The CPU is a PIII 760 mhz.

Thanks again,
Kaytrim

Kremmit:

If it ONLY happens in MAME, and NEVER in Windows, and you're running MAME under Windows, then isn't MAME the culprit?

psychotech:

Well..

No mouse drivers, but you'll find several free mouse drivers with Google on the various drivers sites etc.

To check the PS/2 connectors I'd just try a couple different mouses for a longer period of time ..Does that erratic behavior emerge at any point with any of them?

Yeah, probably not a memory issue.


--- Quote ---If it ONLY happens in MAME, and NEVER in Windows, and you're running MAME under Windows, then isn't MAME the culprit?
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- Quite a coincidence if it was MAME in both cases.. DOS & Windows.. Or do you use the same MAME version on both with the absolutely same roms? If that's the case, I'd also try a different MAME build and/or different roms....

Hope you'll get it working

p

Kaytrim:


--- Quote from: psychotech on June 19, 2007, 08:02:59 am ---
--- Quote ---If it ONLY happens in MAME, and NEVER in Windows, and you're running MAME under Windows, then isn't MAME the culprit?
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- Quite a coincidence if it was MAME in both cases.. DOS & Windows.. Or do you use the same MAME version on both with the absolutely same roms? If that's the case, I'd also try a different MAME build and/or different roms....

Hope you'll get it working

p

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Interesting point there Psyco.  The roms are the same and the MAME version number is the same (.85)  just DMAME vs. MAME.  I can't say it is the rom files because this happens in all the trackball games I tried.  I was thinking about using a different version down the road anyway because Galaxian didn't work.  the game would start up but it wouldn't respond to any keypresses.  This may be another reason to setup a different version of MAME and see if there is any other issues.  Just wish I had the time right now to mess with it.  Got to get the basement finished first now that the cab is delivered.  Then clean a few things off the honey-do list.  Then I can really sit down and trouble shoot this and start building some custom sticks.

TTFN :cheers:
Kaytrim

psychotech:

To save time you could always download the next version (086?) of MAME (for either platform) and read the "whatsnew.txt" file.. Might be the problem is mentioned there in the fixed bugs section ..or the next build ..?

How about trying something like 075 ..just in case. If the games on the bartop are supported there should be no harm in trying an earlier version - might get a slight speed advantage even.

Just thoughts..

psycho

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