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Arcade Cab crapped out again - need reload advice!
vettetekk:
Hey all!
Well, my stand up machine running a AMD 1900 XP finally died. It took out a couple hard drives with it as well. So im going to once again reload it for the 4th time. 1st was arcadeos in DOS, then was MAMEWAH, and the latest load was MALA. I havent been "up to date" with the scene lately and was just wondering whats the best combo running on lately. I liked diffrent frontends for diffrent reasons, and Ill probably roll with MALA but I wasnt sure if Mamewah has gotten better lately. Or is there another front end out there now thats even better? I was running MAME 1.06 and the version I had before that was .79 I think. For some reason I couldnt get the vectors to look right on the later version as they did on the older version of mame - something about HWstretch or something.
Thanks in advance for the advice !
~V
stephenp1983:
Personally I prefer gameex as a frontend, because of its easy of use and many features.
Guaranos:
Why does your arcade machine keep dying on you? Fixing that issue should be your first priority.
vettetekk:
--- Quote from: Guaranos on June 29, 2007, 07:34:28 pm ---Why does your arcade machine keep dying on you? Fixing that issue should be your first priority.
--- End quote ---
Well, The pc board thats in there came from my old computer when I upgraded. That was the first time as the original MoBO was a celeron running the DOS and arcade OS. Then this last time is because the MOBO finally just had it and wiped the hard drives - electrical surge down the IDE cables will do that ;). So, I know the reasons - its not like it keeps happening, I just needed some input on what everyones using nowadays since I dont stay up with the "scene" probably like I should.
I was just wondering if there has been any real AWESOME additions to any front ends out there in the last 8 months that I should look into before just going with what I had.
Thanks again everyone!!
~V
rdowdy95:
I use .110 of Mame with Mamewah version b12. The Mamewah probably has a newer version. I just got this nice layout I made in Mamewah. What I did do though is I back all my stuff up. I have a western digital 80GB passport drive USB 2.0 style. I need to make sure I have all my recent changes saved. I have my setup file my roms and all that jaz, but I really need to make sure all my current Daphne stuff is saved. Also have some ini files from mamewah I need to make sure I have saved. If mine were to die on me I may not remember how to get some of that stuff operational again. LOL!