Greet all.
This is a wierd one that I simply cannot explain....by the way, for all of the below, I'm using Mame32 w/XP.
I have mame running on an EMachine with a Horizontal Gateway monitor....all games work great in that my Vertical games play reduced and centered with a black band on the left/right (as its supposed to).
I also have a Gateway computer with a horizontal EMachines monitor (I used my bigger monitor for my Mame cab above); and the orientation works perfectly here as well.
....wwwweeeellllll....here' the rub.
I copied the exact same files (from my mame cab) to a new Compaq Presario using a Sony Trinitron monitor for use on my new Cocktail that I'm building and I'm finding that QBert and Centipeid in particular are playing incorrectly when rotated. They run, but they are severely "squished" and elongated, but play in the proper orientation (vertical).
All other Vertial games seem to run perfectly (I use the "auto clockwise function). Thankfully this doesn't seem to be a problem with any other "classic game" (thank the gaming gods).
....any thoughts ? Suggestions?
I've tried doing a fresh reload of all files (directly from computer to computer) and this is the only computer that's having this problem.
Could it be the processor? The Emachine has a 2.0 Athlon chip, the Gateway uses a Pent. 4 BUT, my new Presario uses a 1.3 Celeron.
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Suggestions?
The MameMaster!