Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
CHICKEN RESTORE LIKE A ROBOT (Berzerk) *IT LIVES*
ChadTower:
Okay I just tried pretty much all combinations of sync with jumpers and nothing worked. This is ticking me off.
ChadTower:
A useful VGA - arcade monitor tutorial pointed to me by Peale.
ChadTower:
So I tried it again tonight... and with some adjustment got to a scrolling double screen with DOS on it. That sounds much like what Peale described to me as not booting to 15khz... so on a whim I swapped at the video card connector to a PC monitor and boom it looks good. So somehow I'm not loading properly to 15khz. Progress, I suppose.
For some reason, not 15khz
ChadTower:
Oh, funky. I just loaded mame on the PC monitor... then exited, and the screen went wacky. So I plugged in the arcade monitor and now I get a dos prompt. A weak signal, but it's a dos prompt clearly on the Berzerk. I have no idea why it only went to 15khz after I loaded and then exited mame.
Then, I load Frenzy, and it goes back to 60khz... I exit to the prompt, back to 15khz. And if I load Berzerk it's just a black screen. Isn't arcmon.sys supposed to keep the whole session in 15khz?
ChadTower:
This is definitely a freakin' dos issue now. First line of config.sys:
DEVICE=c:\dos\arcmon.sys
For some reason, it doesn't load that on boot. It boots regularly, then I go to c:\mame and start MAME. It runs MAME in 60khz, as it should... then if I exit back to the prompt it goes to 15khz. A restart of MAME from 15khz starts mame in 60khz... and exiting back to the prompt gets it to 15khz again.
:banghead:
I wonder if this has anything to do with the MAME boot screen that spystyle's CD installed. I don't know exactly where that is gettin called so I'll have to figure that out.
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