Fullscreen with Advmame for Win? What am I doing wrong?

[JLR2000]

Ok...I have Advmame loaded on my cocktail running Win98se, but booting straight to DOS.  I was using Advmame for DOS and had it running great.

Well, I've just investigated running in Win98 (instead of DOS).  I got GameLauncher running for win with no probs, but when I try to use Advmame for DOS, I get no sound - but fullscreen.  I tried the Advmame for Windows, and the sound works fine, but I can't get it to not run within a tiny window.  I tried to run the advv (advance video configuration, but it doesnt' seem to run in windows...it runs fine in DOS).  

Any ideas?  This has to be something simple but I've been looking around and readnig the docs, but I can't seem to find anything....

Thanks.

[Smack]

Looking at the docs, it appears that AdvMAME reccomends that you use the DOS port under windows 98 / 98se.

Have you tried forcing the audio driver in the CFG file? Ie:

allegro/sb10  Sound Blaster 1.0.  
 allegro/sb15  Sound Blaster 1.5.  
 allegro/sb20  Sound Blaster 2.0.  
 allegro/sbpro  Sound Blaster Pro.  
 allegro/sb16  Sound Blaster 16.  
 allegro/audio  Ensoniq AudioDrive.  
 allegro/wss  Windows Sound System.  

etc.?

I'm stumped. I used to use Advance MAME for a couple of years, but never ran into that (I ended up switching to analog MAME and never looked back.)

Smack

[JLR2000]

Smack -

I tried a couple, then thought "hey I should be using the Windows version".  I'll try them all out.  Where did you see in the docs about using the DOS port for Win98?  I believe you, its just that I've been lookingall around and didn't see anything like that......

Makes sense, since the svgawin.sys and svgawin.exe say they are only for XP/2000/NT.....

I'll keep trying......thanks.

[Smack]

Here's the quote (from the Advancemame Download page)

"Please note that for Windows 98 the suggested choice is the DOS version. The Windows version is able to program your video board only in Windows NT/2000/XP. "

Dunno if that helps.

Good luck, I'll keep thinking... and drinking...

Smack

[JLR2000]

DOH-

I downloaded from the SourceForge page:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=33717&release_id=140744

So I didn't see that...Thanks!

[Smack]

Any luck so far?

[JLR2000]

Ok, here's what I've found out.....

I can get the sound to work with Advmame (DOS port) in Win98 in a Dos window if I type the following line first:

"SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4"

When I was booting straight to DOS, I had this in my autoexec.bat.  It's still there, but I guess in Windows you need to invoke it for each Dos session/window.

Now, In GameLauncher, you can setup a "pre-command", a command to be run before the emulator is run.  I figured, great...I can stick command here.  It worked, however when I quit a game and go back to the GameLauncher FE, the GL soundeffects are gone.  I can only assume that the "SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4" command is hosing up the sound settings for GL.

GameLauncher has a "post-command", a command to run after you exit the emulator.  I guess I could "undo" the "SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4" command...if I knew how to, but it seems to me I must be overlooking something.....I think I'm overcomplicating this somehow....

Ultimately I'd prefer to run Win98se, GameLauncher(win port), and AdvanceMame (dos port).  It works in pure DOS, but Windows will allow me to plug a couple of USB wingman warrior joysticks in for horizontal games (2 player).....

It's too late, and I think I'm overlooking something obvious, so I'm calling it quits for now....any ideas or suggestions welcome!

Thanks again.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that I am not using the onboard sound system...I have an ISA soundcard installed.  I originally thought I'd have to go DOS for performance, but now that I've tried Windows I don't see a difference (for the games I have on the cocktail machine).

[Howard_Casto]

A much simplier solution.... your in windows now so buy andy's new arcadevga card.... set mame's resolution to the max your monitor and that card can handle and use good ole mame with hwstretch turned on.   No fuss, no muss.. It will automatically scale the screen up to the full resolution your monitor supports.  

Advance mame is no longer necessary, even though it's sometimes nice.  

[JLR2000]

Hey Howard -

Actually have an ArcadeVGA and JPac in bubble wrap awaiting the next project (which I have in pieces around me)  basically a cab conversion that has a 19" WG monitor.  I never mentioned it earlier, but I'm using a PC monitor for this project so the ArcadeVGA wouldn't be the way to go...

My thread actually turned into more of a sound issue than a fullscreen issue.  No problems with fullscreen now that I'm using the Dos Port for Win98, thanks to Smack for pointing that out....I missed that bit of critical info downloading from the SourceForge site instead of the AdvanceMame site....

Since my issue seems to be more sound/GL and windows, I've posted to the GL group and Dave gave me some ideas.  I'm sure it's something simple I hosed....I've been changing so much that I think I need to remove everything and start with fresh config files.

What I like about AdvanceMame is that you can correctly rotate the NeoGeo games (I don't think regular mame can do that yet...maybe it's been changed), and also the fact that you can turn off ALL of the nag/info screens in the config file, instead of only getting some (mame .65 and up) or recompiling....

Anyway....thanks everyone for the help.  

[Smack]

Hmm. Still having probs with the sound, huh?

Maybe try reinstalling the Windows drivers for the sound card, leave the setting in Advance MAME's cfg file as AUTO.

Have you disabled the onboard sound on your motherboard in the bios? Maybe check the sound properties section under the control panel and make sure that the sound playback is set on the right thing? (ie: set the default one)

I'm just thinking out loud., don't mind me...

Wanna post your advmame configuration file? Maybe we'll see something in that.

Smack

[CitznFish]

it plays games in a small window on XP too..i gave up trying to figure it out after 3 hours...

[JLR2000]

CitznFish-  on XP there is a config program for the video for AdvanceMame(win port).  Try that...

Smack and the rest:

Thanks, I finally got it working.  I wish I could tell you what I did, but in the end I ended up:
1. Removing ISA soundcard
2. Enabling sound in bios/Going back to onboard sound
3. Disabling sound in bios and "removing" from hardware list
4. Reinstalling ISA soundcard (with nothing in autoexec.bat)

After all of that, it just worked...like I said earlier I just think something got hosed somehow (technical talk).  Thanks for all your help.  I'm now running Win98se, GL for Windows, with config files for Mame (win port) and AdvanceMame(dos port) and everything is playing great.  AdvanceMame allows me to rotate the NEOGEO games correctly, avoid all the nag/info screens without recompiling, and adjust the picture on the monitor (since it's hard to get to the monitor buttons in my cocktail cab). I'll probably just go to using AdvanceMame for all the games....Thanks!

[Smack]

Fantastic.

Much Kong for you.

Smack