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ghettodish:

--- Quote from: shardian on February 03, 2009, 08:28:35 am ---Holy crap this pc has been a headache!!!

It is an IBM Aptiva E3N 300mhz with 160 RAM. I have tried Spystyles disk, tinyXP with mame32 and mame0.54, windows 98 with Spystyles MAME, and MAME.54

Every time there is something wonky with the video drivers or something. I got the MAME errors that are described in Spystyles boot disk thread, no matter what I did. In XP, there were ridiculous video card driver errors. In Windows 98, I had a directdraw error in MAME54. I could turn off ddraw to run the games, but they looked like crap and ran smaller than full screen with wonky colors - typical bad video driver behavior. Only thing was the onboard ATI Rage video was working properly according to windows98.

Anyone want to take a crack at getting me up and running. I was considering trying an AdvanceCD boot disk, but don't know if it is worth the CD with my current problems. I'm about to toss this POS PC off a bridge!!!


Oh, and the worst part? I once had this PC working properly with MAME54 and MAMEWAH before changing out to a bigger hard drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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have you tried this with the driver packs installed?:

http://spystyle.arcadecontrols.com/98/index71.htm

shardian:

--- Quote from: ghettodish on February 03, 2009, 08:46:41 pm ---
--- Quote from: shardian on February 03, 2009, 08:28:35 am ---Holy crap this pc has been a headache!!!

It is an IBM Aptiva E3N 300mhz with 160 RAM. I have tried Spystyles disk, tinyXP with mame32 and mame0.54, windows 98 with Spystyles MAME, and MAME.54

Every time there is something wonky with the video drivers or something. I got the MAME errors that are described in Spystyles boot disk thread, no matter what I did. In XP, there were ridiculous video card driver errors. In Windows 98, I had a directdraw error in MAME54. I could turn off ddraw to run the games, but they looked like crap and ran smaller than full screen with wonky colors - typical bad video driver behavior. Only thing was the onboard ATI Rage video was working properly according to windows98.

Anyone want to take a crack at getting me up and running. I was considering trying an AdvanceCD boot disk, but don't know if it is worth the CD with my current problems. I'm about to toss this POS PC off a bridge!!!


Oh, and the worst part? I once had this PC working properly with MAME54 and MAMEWAH before changing out to a bigger hard drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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have you tried this with the driver packs installed?:

http://spystyle.arcadecontrols.com/98/index71.htm

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I bookmarked that for future reference, but I've invested enough hours in this POS computer. I'm just taking the desktop PC down to the game for the party this weekend.

I even tried the AdvanceCD on this machine last night. It hung to a blank screen after apparently loading linux. I don't know why, and I don't care. For all the hours I've invested in this 300mhz PC already, I could have done a side job at work and bought a new PC or 2!!!!!

gonzo90017:
Does the pc have a hard drive installed? I'm working on a package for older pc's 166-300mhz.
It requires a fresh install of Windows 98SE. If you wan't to try it out send me a pm.

RayB:
Direct Draw?! You DON'T want to run MAME via Windows on a machine that slow! Configure it to boot straight to DOS (which you can do using Win98) and use a DOS version of MAME. You'll avoid the need for graphics drivers since everthing will work via direct VGA calls.

Ummon:

--- Quote from: RayB on February 04, 2009, 01:13:25 pm ---Direct Draw?! You DON'T want to run MAME via Windows on a machine that slow! Configure it to boot straight to DOS (which you can do using Win98) and use a DOS version of MAME. You'll avoid the need for graphics drivers since everthing will work via direct VGA calls.



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I recently came across a 333mhz machine by the dumpster and am preparing to do something in this vein.



--- Quote from: shardian on February 04, 2009, 09:45:11 am --- For all the hours I've invested in this 300mhz PC already, I could have done a side job at work and bought a new PC or 2!!!!!

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Ha, no doubt.

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