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Title: Does Daphne emulator work in WIN 98 SE?
Post by: creatine28 on April 14, 2003, 01:37:08 pm

Does the Daphne emulator work ok in WIN 98 SE?   I saw a message that was saying that it will run jerky,  so I'm just trying to determine if I should upgrade my system to WIN XP Pro?  I don't want to upgrade to XP unless I have to?  I'm afraid of compatibility issue's with my current mame setup.  



Thanks!

Title: Re:Does Daphne emulator work in WIN 98 SE?
Post by: rampy on April 14, 2003, 01:48:41 pm

It will work in win98... but you'll need a reasonably fast system and decent vid card.  It's just that it'll run better in w2k/xp system at the same clock speed/setup.  

*shrug*...  the only way to know for sure is to try it and see if your setup responds well to LD games =)

Rampy

Title: Re:Does Daphne emulator work in WIN 98 SE?
Post by: creatine28 on April 14, 2003, 01:53:18 pm

Quote from: rampy on April 14, 2003, 01:48:41 pm

It will work in win98... but you'll need a reasonably fast system and decent vid card.  It's just that it'll run better in w2k/xp system at the same clock speed/setup.  

*shrug*...  the only way to know for sure is to try it and see if your setup responds well to LD games =)

Rampy

I'm using a 2 ghz Celeron system, I think the onboard video is pretty good, so I'll just give it a go!  

Thanks!

Steve

Title: Re:Does Daphne emulator work in WIN 98 SE?
Post by: creatine28 on April 14, 2003, 06:52:20 pm

Another quick question,  has anyone made a Daphne .app for ArcadeOS?  

Title: Re:Does Daphne emulator work in WIN 98 SE?
Post by: Chris on April 14, 2003, 10:51:05 pm

Daphne runs fine on my Athlon XP 2000+ on Windows 98SE.

--Chris

Title: Re:Does Daphne emulator work in WIN 98 SE?
Post by: Lilwolf on April 16, 2003, 06:03:18 pm

It runs fine... but not as good as XP.

I went from 98 -> XP on the same hardware and it seemed to run much smoother on XP.  But not enough difference for me to choose XP over 98..

Title: Re:Does Daphne emulator work in WIN 98 SE?
Post by: shmokes on April 16, 2003, 07:06:14 pm

Unless you're talking about some specific reason for running 98 like you want to run analog+ you're crazy.  XP is far and away Microsoft's best OS attempt yet.  There's not even a debate.

Title: Re:Does Daphne emulator work in WIN 98 SE?
Post by: Chris on April 16, 2003, 10:29:10 pm

Well, I have 98, and it runs well enough for a cabinet, so why spend the money to upgrade to XP when all you're running is emulators?

I wish DAPHNE used Allegro instead of SDL... then it would run in DOS, which is more stable than any other Microsoft OS...

--Chris

Title: Re:Does Daphne emulator work in WIN 98 SE?
Post by: Howard_Casto on April 16, 2003, 11:38:44 pm

Quote from: Chris on April 16, 2003, 10:29:10 pm

Well, I have 98, and it runs well enough for a cabinet, so why spend the money to upgrade to XP when all you're running is emulators?

Because Xp is the most robust operating system windows ever made. It's lightyears ahead of 9x.  You don't HAVE to run it, but all of your helper apps (front ends, media players, ect) will get better performance in xp.  That is assuming you meet and exceed the minimum sys req. :)