Emus and MAMEWah with Vista

[toasty]

Getting ready to move all of my emulators, roms and MAMEWah over to a shiny new computer running Vista.  Emulators include:

MAME
Daphne
ZSNES
FCE Ultra
Fusion

and I use MAMEWah as my frontend

Will probably just d/l the most recent version of these and start from scratch. 

Before I plunge ahead with this, anyone have any issues running anything under Vista that I ought to know about?

[toasty]

I've done some digging on this myself, and it looks like MAMEWah will not work with Vista b/c Vista doesn't support VB6, which is a damn shame.  Anyone with Vista have any recommendations for FEs that play nice?  GameEx is the frontrunner right now.

Really hate Microsoft, BTW.  Vista's pretty and all, but it's a resource hog and none of my peripherals have worked without considerable wrangling...

[Zeppo]

If it is just going to be a Mame computer, why not use Tiny XP?
It runs much faster than regular XP.

Vista is a hog and slows down almost all gaming.


Good luck.

[toasty]

If it is just going to be a Mame computer, why not use Tiny XP?

Not familiar with that -- what is it all about?

Not sure it would be appropriate, though -- although it is my MAME computer, it is not in a cab but is instead hooked up to a big screen with removable arcade controls.  We also use it to surf the web, as a slideshow/jukebox when we have parties, etc.

[unclet]

How can Windows Vista not support VB6?   Does this mean that all companies running computers which have specialized VB6 software on them will no longer work after they upgrade all their computers (which comes with the lastest OS available .. typically) like most big companies do every 5 years?

This is a disturbing thought....

[toasty]

probably overstated that a bit.  Its an incompatibility with mscomm32.ocx (and a number of other runtime components) specifically.  Check it out:

http://www.msfn.org/board/mscomm32ocx_t90715.html