Author Topic: Is anyone maintaining the marquee packs? (Read 4789 times)

AllisterFiend · « **on:** April 14, 2005, 07:00:31 pm »

I was wondering if anyone is still maintaining the marquee packs and if so do they have a website?

I just visited the http://HTTP://EMAM.MAMEWORLD.NET/ website and the packs seem pretty old.

Thanks for any info.

Allister Fiend

paigeoliver · « **Reply #1 on:** April 15, 2005, 01:54:54 am »

I actually at one point assembled a COMPLETE marquee pack with marquees for all non-mahjong titles. Many of them were fakes, but at least everything had one.

Maybe someone around here still has it, I am not sure if I even have it anymore.

TalkingOctopus · « **Reply #2 on:** April 15, 2005, 02:01:12 am »

Quote from: paigeoliver on April 15, 2005, 01:54:54 am

I actually at one point assembled a COMPLETE marquee pack with marquees for all non-mahjong titles. Many of them were fakes, but at least everything had one.

Maybe someone around here still has it, I am not sure if I even have it anymore.

I still have them and use them.

paigeoliver · « **Reply #3 on:** April 15, 2005, 03:20:46 am »

Quote from: TalkingOctopus on April 15, 2005, 02:01:12 am

Quote from: paigeoliver on April 15, 2005, 01:54:54 am
I actually at one point assembled a COMPLETE marquee pack with marquees for all non-mahjong titles. Many of them were fakes, but at least everything had one.

Maybe someone around here still has it, I am not sure if I even have it anymore.

I still have them and use them. Thanks for assembling them. They are pretty neat.

I might have to get them back from you, I have a nagging feeling that I may have lost them shuffling files and mame installs around in the last 6 months.

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #4 on:** April 15, 2005, 07:55:00 am »

I've got them too. I'd host them, but I've feeling that a few hundred people downloading 190mb worth of marquees would kill my monthly bandwidth. I think I'll post them to alt.binaries.emulators.arcade, if that's okay with you.

paigeoliver · « **Reply #5 on:** April 15, 2005, 07:56:24 am »

Quote from: JoyMonkey on April 15, 2005, 07:55:00 am

I've got them too. I'd host them, but I've feeling that a few hundred people downloading 190mb worth of marquees would kill my monthly bandwidth. I think I'll post them to alt.binaries.emulators.arcade, if that's okay with you.

Go for it, please label them as "Paige's unofficial marquee pack". We need to get those suckers circulating anyway.

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #6 on:** April 15, 2005, 08:06:18 am »

Okay, I'll set them going. It should take a couple of hours with my weak upload speed

jcrouse · « **Reply #7 on:** April 15, 2005, 10:05:58 am »

How bout a torrent somewhere? Petr1fieds Tracker?

John

Tiger-Heli · « **Reply #8 on:** April 15, 2005, 10:15:03 am »

Quote from: AllisterFiend on April 14, 2005, 07:00:31 pm

I was wondering if anyone is still maintaining the marquee packs and if so do they have a website?

I just visited the http://HTTP://EMAM.MAMEWORLD.NET/ website and the packs seem pretty old.

Thanks for any info.

Allister Fiend

Well, Emam is Eldio at www.mameworld.net. You could try e-mailing him at "Eldio at uk2 dot net" I thought he was still maintaining them or at least would have found someone to take it over for him.

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #9 on:** April 15, 2005, 12:05:55 pm »

Paige's Unofficial Mame Marquee packs are now up at alt.binaries.emulators.mame
Grab 'em while they're hot!

zander · « **Reply #10 on:** April 15, 2005, 02:32:19 pm »

This was a good question i was wondering the same about the official packs not being updated for a long time. paigeoliver and joymonkey will ClrMamePro complain about the new marquees or not. Is there a dat file.?

SirPoonga · « **Reply #11 on:** April 15, 2005, 04:03:44 pm »

i want to see an instruction card pack

markrvp · « **Reply #12 on:** April 15, 2005, 05:24:06 pm »

I have done a search and don't find how to get to

alt.binaries.emulators.mame

Where do I go on the web to get Paige's marquee pack?

paigeoliver · « **Reply #13 on:** April 15, 2005, 05:53:31 pm »

THat is a newsgroup, you need to have a newsgroup account and a newsreader.

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #14 on:** April 15, 2005, 06:07:47 pm »

If you're not familiar with newsgroups (one of the oldest forms of communication on the internet), there's a good guide here:
http://www.slyck.com/ng.php

Most ISPs provide some form of newsgroup access for free. In the US, Verizon provides a particularly fine newsgroup service with access to all the popular binary groups, if you're using Comcast you'll have to pay extra (surprise surprise!). There are individual companies that offer binary newsgroup access for a monthly charge, like Usenet.com, GigaNews, NewsFeeds.com or Ugroups.com.

markrvp · « **Reply #15 on:** April 15, 2005, 06:31:45 pm »

Quote from: JoyMonkey on April 15, 2005, 06:07:47 pm

If you're not familiar with newsgroups (one of the oldest forms of communication on the internet), there's a good guide here:
http://www.slyck.com/ng.php

Thanks for the info guys. I never new what newsgroups were. I figured they just carried news, and I get enough of that on msn.com and news channels. Looks like there's a lot of other non-news related stuff there too.

Hey, I did replace my rotary phone with one of those new touchtone thingies, though.

lol.

Back to the cave.

jcrouse · « **Reply #16 on:** April 15, 2005, 06:34:49 pm »

Download XNEWS. It's generally considered the best news reader available.

Oh yeah, go to http://www.google.com and type "XNEWS" (without the quotes) in the text box then click on the box labeled "Google Search" (without the quotes.

John

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #17 on:** April 15, 2005, 06:43:42 pm »

I'm not a fan of XNews. I think Forte Agent is much easier to use, especially for someone that's new to newsgroups. Here's Slyck's Agent guide:
http://www.slyck.com/agent.php

markrvp · « **Reply #18 on:** April 15, 2005, 06:57:07 pm »

Quote

Oh yeah, go to http://www.google.com and type "XNEWS" (without the quotes) in the text box then click on the box labeled "Google Search" (without the quotes.

I typed that at the DOS prompt on my trusty 286, but nothing happened

Just kidding, thanks for the help guys.

JCROUSE: CPVIEWER ROCKS!

quarterback · « **Reply #19 on:** April 16, 2005, 12:10:14 am »

Quote from: JoyMonkey on April 15, 2005, 12:05:55 pm

Paige's Unofficial Mame Marquee packs are now up at alt.binaries.emulators.mame
Grab 'em while they're hot!

Sweet!

2600 · « **Reply #20 on:** April 16, 2005, 11:50:24 am »

Quote from: JoyMonkey on April 15, 2005, 06:43:42 pm

I'm not a fan of XNews. I think Forte Agent is much easier to use, especially for someone that's new to newsgroups. Here's Slyck's Agent guide:
http://www.slyck.com/agent.php

I agree about XNews, didn't like it at all. I've used Forte Agent since Windows 3.1. It just seemed a lot more natural compared to other newsreaders, glad to see someone else using it. In the past year I started having problems with it though. A newsgroup would be so large I couldn't get all the headings, or it wouldn't save attachments, and generally acting weird. So I tried a bunch of sucky newreaders and finally founds Grabit. It's pretty nice. Seems faster and downloads are much faster maybe because it grabs multiple threads at once.

It's free so give it a try sometime Joymonkey, it may not do everything Agent does, but only thing that was even close.

Also, Comcast around here give you 1GB news service through Giganews for free.

jcrouse · « **Reply #21 on:** April 16, 2005, 12:12:55 pm »

Quote from: 2600 on April 16, 2005, 11:50:24 am

Also, Comcast around here give you 1GB news service through Giganews for free.

2600, where is "around here"? I use Comcast also and never hear of that. What are you upload/download speeds? Are you experiencing the recent DNS issues?

John

sc1103 · « **Reply #22 on:** April 16, 2005, 12:45:55 pm »

I use comcast too (southern NJ) and they bury the newsgroup stuff somewhere on that account page of theirs...I really should go look for it again...last time I tried it I managed to mess it all up but I doubt thatll happen this time

screaming · « **Reply #23 on:** April 16, 2005, 01:02:08 pm »

Yeah you can find it once you log in to comcast.net with your account.

For me it's newsgroups.comcast.net, then I log in with my comcast email as my username and the password I set up when I set up my comcast account.

-sab

jcrouse · « **Reply #24 on:** April 16, 2005, 01:16:24 pm »

For me it's netnews.comcast.net but they don't carry the binaries. How about the DNS issues. R U guys having issues?

John

2600 · « **Reply #25 on:** April 16, 2005, 01:43:03 pm »

Northern VA, outside of DC. No DNS issues that I'm aware of. For Comcast around here, you sign up with giganews through comcast.net to get news service. You then have a "regular" giganews account.

Looks like I'm lucky, as far as comcast goes

, giganews is pretty good. Only downside is the headers count as your monthly bandwidth. I'm not sure of my upload/download speeds for news service or in general, but it seems plenty fast enough for me.

MrSaLTy · « **Reply #26 on:** April 16, 2005, 02:51:59 pm »

Quote from: screaming on April 16, 2005, 01:02:08 pm

Yeah you can find it once you log in to comcast.net with your account.

jcrouse · « **Reply #27 on:** April 16, 2005, 02:54:34 pm »

Mr. Salty,
I was there about three days ago. Funny, those are the same DNS servers I chose.

Thanks,
John

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #28 on:** April 16, 2005, 03:04:07 pm »

I just set up Comcast's newsgroup service using Agent at a friends house and was surprised to see all the binary groups here too. I wonder what happens when you hit the 2gig download limit though? Will your bill get bigger, or will service be denied?
I'll never leave Verizon if they keep offering unlimited usenet downloads, even if their upload speed does suck and downloads aren't quite as fast sometimes.

Oh, for everyone without newsgroup access, I'm groing to upload Paige's Marquee Packs to my website for a little while. If my bandwidth goes up too much I'll pull them. I'll post an address for the packs later.

MrSaLTy · « **Reply #29 on:** April 16, 2005, 03:15:30 pm »

They will send you an email when you reach 75% of usage warning you. Also another when you hit the limit. You will be denied access then till the month is up.

jcrouse · « **Reply #30 on:** April 16, 2005, 08:02:30 pm »

Paige.....Since you created these I'll direct the question your way. What exactly is this set. Were the all the official marquees (at one time) and you made the fakes to fill the voids? There seems to be some odd shaped, like 200x300, images in there. They look like instruction cards and also exist in the official pack. Why are the in with the marquees?

Thanks,
John

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #31 on:** April 16, 2005, 11:57:18 pm »

Okay, everyone that hasn't already downloaded Paige's marquee packs from alt.binaries.emulators.mame can now download them from HERE.
This is a temporary/WIP site.

daywane · « **Reply #32 on:** April 17, 2005, 08:12:01 pm »

not working.
downloads get here 0 kb

sc1103 · « **Reply #33 on:** April 17, 2005, 08:46:41 pm »

Quote from: daywane on April 17, 2005, 08:12:01 pm

not working.
downloads get here 0 kb

Just to elaborate...the download works...its just the .zips are empty to begin w/

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #34 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:25:40 pm »

Sorry, I had a stupid ' in a directory name (duh!)
Paiges Unofficial Mame Marquee Packs

AllisterFiend · « **Reply #35 on:** April 22, 2005, 07:15:05 am »

Thanks for all the info, and thanks for the your marquees Paige.

I tried to email that address that was given but I have had no response as of yet, I will probably try one more time before I give up.

btw, XNEWS is great, I love it, It can be a little confusing for a first time user to newsgroups. I've been using newsgroups for years now, I like it better than torrents and tracking it down on the web. (I do like petrifieds torrent site though, great resource for emulator fans.)

Later,
Allister Fiend


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