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ssjenkins:
Hi All,

 OK , this is a continuation of this thread :

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,30681.0.html

but as it covers a few topics I thought I'd open a new thread . Here goes . I've got the following .

1) One upright arcade machine with JAMMA harness and ....
2) One Hantarex MTC9110 Monitor

and I've just bought the following ..

3) One J-PAC
4) One ArcadeVGA card
5) One 500Mhz(P3) /128M RAM PC .
6) and 2 new attitional buttons for player 1 and 2 (now 5 in total)

 I know I'm asking a lot here but what's the best way to set this up ? Starting with Win98SE . I'm going to do a clean install . I presume all I need is the OS together with DirectX9.0 . Should I load anything else ?

 Once the OS is up and running I'm going to load Mame .35 and the latest version of MameWah . Is there anything special I need to know for my setup ? I've always used Mame32 so any help would be appreciated .

 At present I've got to physically turn my monitor around if I want to play horizontally oriented games . What's going to happen now once I install Mame ?
If I leave my monitor in vertical mode and I play a horizontal game I presume it'll be "squashed up" a bit .

 Sorry for all the questions but I just wanted to be prepared for any problems during the convertion . I'd appreciate any info/advice .

Sammy
 

krick:
You should probably turn your monitor horizontal as the majority of games in MAME are horizontal.

You can definitely play vertical games on a horizontal monitor, but I don't know if horizontal games will play on a vertical monitor.


As for installing and hooking everything up, here's my 12 step program as best as I can remember...


1) Install the J-PAC following the J-PAC instructions on the Ultimarc site...
http://www.ultimarc.com/jpac2.html
...pay close attention to the sections titled "JAMMA Cabinet Preparation" and "Connecting to the JAMMA harness and PC".

ssjenkins:
Just wanted to say many , many thanks for the information krick . That was EXACTLY what I was looking for . I should have all the hardware together within the next week so I'll post back with the results . Once again many thanks for taking the time to reply .

Sammy

ssjenkins:
Well I'm on my way . All my hardware has arrived and I've cut my 4 new holes in my control panel . Basically I'm still going through point 1) below , however , my question relates to point 2) , software . I ended up buying a 733Mhz P3/128RAM . I'm going to use Mame35 (mame035b_fix.zip) and MameWah V1.6 .
Basically my question is , should I use Win98SE or W2K Pro SP4 ? and do I need DirectX ??

Thanks

Sammy

j123vt_99:
asking as a newbie, but why would you use mame .35 if ver .90 is out?

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