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Anyone using a 400 mghtz machine for cab?
SirPeale:
I've got a Galaxian cabinet that has a 486 of all things. Of course, it's running VAntAGE.
It will be upgraded to either a P75 or a P133 (not sure which I have around) because I can't get Galaga running full speed on it.
And I just might use the latest version of Mame. Dunno how it'll do on a 133, but since they fixed Galaga's discrete sounds, it's worth a shot for me.
elvis:
--- Quote from: Hoagie_one on January 26, 2005, 12:49:26 pm ---I was thinking the last release of v37, why 36?
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From memory 0.36 was the last MAME to use many of the assembly cores, as well as no alpha/transparency and whatnot.
0.37 onwards migrated all code to a much more complete and portable tree, and in turn needed much more grunt.
Remember that the idea of MAME is to document games accurately. There are plenty of emulators which aren't nearly as accurate as MAME, and instead focus on playability. For the MAME devs, playing games is just a "nice side effect". :)
MAME 0.36 on DOS will run most games happily on 200-400MHz hardware. Post-0.36, you almost need to double (and in some cases triple) hardware requirements.
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Hoagie_one on January 26, 2005, 12:49:26 pm ---I was thinking the last release of v37, why 36?
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What Elvis said, but . . .
R36B12 is the magic pre-alpha blending release, especially important for Battlezone and less for Astdelux (I still use this for bzone with an XP2800 Barton).
R37B15 is the first windows version with hardware stretching and the last truly working System 16 build.
Everyone needs to get over this notion of "I need to just install this version of MAME on my cabinet . . .
Put all your roms in one folder. Install MAME R36B12, R37B15, 0.55 or so, and 0.90. Play a few games in all of them, see which one gives you decent performance. Use this as your primary build. Use the older builds for the few games that play noticeably poorly in the primary build. Use the newer builds for games that weren't emulated in the primary build - they will be choppy or sluggish, but they'll work. Use your frontend to select which Mame build gets used for each game.
You don't have to give up anything . . . .
I wish I knew why more people can't embrace this concept!!!
Hoagie_one:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on January 27, 2005, 07:22:45 am ---
--- Quote from: Hoagie_one on January 26, 2005, 12:49:26 pm ---I was thinking the last release of v37, why 36?
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I wish I knew why more people can't embrace this concept!!!
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Because people are lazy
Dexter:
--- Quote from: Hoagie_one on January 26, 2005, 10:13:36 am ---sounds like i need to just go and buy a better "old" computer for this project then.
thanks
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Have you used fastvid before? Its a tiny dos executable that you run from your autoexec.bat file. It benefits older processor machines. My PII 350 got a hell of a boost in dosmame as a result of using it.
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