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Software Support => GroovyMAME => Topic started by: lettuce on April 08, 2012, 12:07:08 pm

Title: Would the ArcadeForge Soft15khz Dongle Work For GroovyMAME??
Post by: lettuce on April 08, 2012, 12:07:08 pm

Any ideas if the Soft15khz Dongle would work for GroovyMAME so we would be able to use later series of ATI cards than the current 4 series? Heres the Dongle here...

http://wp1114205.wp150.webpack.hosteurope.de/xtcmodified/index.php?cPath=10 (http://wp1114205.wp150.webpack.hosteurope.de/xtcmodified/index.php?cPath=10)

I know its designed for soft15khz but what about GroovyMAME?

Title: Re: Would the ArcadeForge Soft15khz Dongle Work For GroovyMAME??
Post by: Ansa89 on April 08, 2012, 12:22:46 pm

Groovymame is only an emulator, it doesn't force the vga signal to 15KHz.
Soft15khz is the opposite: it only forces the  vga signal to 15KHz and it has nothing to do with an emulator.

That said, I think the answer is (obviously) no.

Title: Re: Would the ArcadeForge Soft15khz Dongle Work For GroovyMAME??
Post by: lettuce on April 08, 2012, 12:39:59 pm

But the modified ATI drivers that Groovymame use's does though...dont they?

Title: Re: Would the ArcadeForge Soft15khz Dongle Work For GroovyMAME??
Post by: Ansa89 on April 08, 2012, 12:55:44 pm

Maybe you are talking about crt-emudriver by Calamity?
I'm quite sure groovymame is _ONLY_ an emulator (no video driver, no stuff to force 15KHz).

Title: Re: Would the ArcadeForge Soft15khz Dongle Work For GroovyMAME??
Post by: Calamity on April 08, 2012, 02:34:28 pm

Quote from: lettuce on April 08, 2012, 12:07:08 pm

Any ideas if the Soft15khz Dongle would work for GroovyMAME so we would be able to use later series of ATI cards than the current 4 series? Heres the Dongle here...

http://wp1114205.wp150.webpack.hosteurope.de/xtcmodified/index.php?cPath=10 (http://wp1114205.wp150.webpack.hosteurope.de/xtcmodified/index.php?cPath=10)

I know its designed for soft15khz but what about GroovyMAME?

I've got one of these dongles for my own experiments, I haven't tested it yet unfortunately. However, according to SailorSat, modern ATIs don't like a 15 kHz EDID, so it doesn't help with these cards. The problem is that their drivers just refuse to support low resolutions.